Friday, December 15, 2006

Essential Curmudgeons

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H.L. Mencken comes to mind. But more to the point... in today's blogging environment with all of its "facts" available to all, I enjoy the occasional curmudgeon who consciously or unconsciously follows Mencken's creed that:
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
Just a few curmudgeons you might want to check out:
They are likely to irritate as much as elucidate, but their skepticism is needed. Note that Martin and John have multiple blogs so they probably irritate a lot more people.