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Too Big For His Breaches
How to quote Shakespeare. Plus: Post-Columbine America, Tommy Thompson, John McCain, Colin Powell, and lots more unconventional wisdom.
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I wondered where all the eminentoes from the old American Spectator
had gone. I found yourselves again by accident, but to the subject:
Your sidebar on us being divided between those who pay most of the
taxes reminded me of Mencken’s father’s maxim to him, to wit:
“Mankind is divided into two great races, those who paid their
bills and those who didn’t.” Mencken is being feted on C-Span as
part of American writers. Mencken’s definition of democracy ,not
that we live in one, was “the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
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Edward Del Colle
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