Comments on: As True As All That

By: master of logic

master of logic — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:42:37 +0000

I propose we nominate this post for a Pulitzer. Then we’re Pulitzer nominees too.

By: kingubu

kingubu — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:55:14 +0000

L.A. “Tex” Mencken.

For this pun, you should only be pecked to death by geese.

By: Zarquon

Zarquon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:57:16 +0000

I have proof that HTMLM works were shamelessly plagiarised from his cousin L.A. “Tex” Mencken.

For shame, sir!

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:47:38 +0000

A fine book, that. I prefer, though, “The Daffyd in the Trees.”
We shouldn’t forget “The Non-Existent Newt”.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:43:37 +0000

Mr. Mencken –

I haven’t had time to read your book yet, what with home schooling my five children and none of the bookstores carrying it, but I wanted to write in and say how amazing your book is, and how brave you are to have written it! The length of time it took you, and the nearly universal mockery you have received only reinforces the fact that your book is intellectual, elitist-exposing, dense, funny, and tells the truth!

By: The Frito Pundito

The Frito Pundito — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:21:51 +0000

I just want to be reassured that HTML M. is the same modest, unassuming guy he always has been, preferring to roast squirrels in his popcorn popper in AK than lick fondue off of Maria Sharpova’s lips in Monte Carlo. Right? Right??

By: robert green

robert green — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:36:55 +0000

congratulations.

if you ever need to win an oscar, give me a call.

By: dadanarchist

dadanarchist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:14:33 +0000

“My copy of The Cloven Wingtard is all dog-eared,”

A fine book, that. I prefer, though, “The Daffyd in the Trees.”

By: commie atheist

commie atheist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:12:14 +0000

Not that this takes away one iota of glory from the phenomenon that IS Mencken, but ANYONE CAN NOMINATE ANYONE FOR A PULITZER PRIZE. Including themselves.

Stop being a hater.

By: Smiling Mortician

Smiling Mortician — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:11:30 +0000

My copy of The Cloven Wingtard is all dog-eared, and I'm on pins and needles waiting for the release of Conservacomiche. Congratulations on your well-earned acclaim, H. (Yeah, that's right, we know each other well enough that I call the great man, simply, H.)

By: Doodle Bean

Doodle Bean — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:52:42 +0000

Let me be the 2105th to congratulate you, HTML!

Congratulations! Onward to Peoria!

By: dadanarchist

dadanarchist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:49:00 +0000

I personally would fear reading an actual copy of “If on a winter’s night a wingnut.”

My guess would be that if you were to take 10 random chapters from 10 random wingnut books, and put them together in one volume, either a.) it would make more sense than any one wingnut tome by its lonesome; or b.) the concentrated stupid would cause gravitational collapse, leaving a hole in the spacetime continuum.

By: jimmiraybob

jimmiraybob — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:32:09 +0000

…his 2-1 pitch to Barry Bonds actually severed the cheating slugger’s right arm at the shoulder, preserving Hank Aaron’s career home run record.

And let me tell ya, a good time was had in St. Looo that night.

By: Major Woody

Major Woody — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:30:10 +0000

Yeah, but I won’t support HTML Menken because he once killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

By: commie atheist

commie atheist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:30:09 +0000

Mr. Mencken, congratulations on your nomination. However, I wanted to point out one thing regarding your “Skeptic’s Guide to American Presidents” series:

Woodrow Wilson: Worst President with regard to racial matters in the period between Buchanan and Nixon. The original “Bubble Boy” President, though by no fault of his own: had a stroke that debilitated him; wife and staff were de facto Presidents. But he was a terrible, terrible President all on his own. Terrible; the guy you want to go back and murder if you have a time machine.

According to Jonah Goldberg, however, Wilson was a Liberal Fascist. Therefore, he must by definition have been one of our BEST presidents. I fear this inconsistency may cost you some points with the Nobel committee.

By: Arky The Blasphemer

Arky The Blasphemer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:57:35 +0000

MrWonderful said,

February 1, 2008 at 18:40

Not that this takes away one iota of glory from the phenomenon that IS Mencken, but ANYONE CAN NOMINATE ANYONE FOR A PULITZER PRIZE. Including themselves.

Nuh-uh. You can only submit a writer/reporter’s name. Submission /= Nomination. See MzNicky’s link on the mighty Flush Limpbag.

And I should know because I AM the PP Selection Committee.

By: Grand Moff Texan

Grand Moff Texan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:50:07 +0000

Hey, remember Mike Bilirakis (R-FL) recommending Hammesfahr for a “Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine”?
.

By: actor212

actor212 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:43:46 +0000

MrW,

That was the point.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:42:03 +0000

How can you have all those gay abortions if you’re living with three women? Unless…

By: MrWonderful

MrWonderful — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:40:32 +0000

Not that this takes away one iota of glory from the phenomenon that IS Mencken, but ANYONE CAN NOMINATE ANYONE FOR A PULITZER PRIZE. Including themselves.

You fill out a form and send it in to the Pulitzer Committee. Maybe it costs eight bucks or some damn thing.

The wife and I did it for a book we published in 2004. Oh all right. Here:

http://tinyurl.com/25pnos