…to you tonight as bob revealed it to me when I met him in Dallas on that blessed day and as h l Mencken said, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Some people were horrified when they read I've been hearing…

…make a little sense. But when you start examining what's going on it doesn't make any sense at all. But like h l Mencken said, he believed he was a polytheist because the universe looks like it was designed by a committee. The world looks like it's…

…adults out there. He made the mistake of so often in his career of overestimating the intelligence of the American people. Mencken said nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Orson is a perfect example of somebody who…

…has some of the greatest pros in the English Language. I think you tell me something in Shakespeare, Something in h l Mencken, Something in Joyce that compares with this. Such simple words to create such total insanity, such a magnificent satire on itself,…

…writings? Well considerable, but he was only one of many influences. James Joyce was a powerful influence. H l Mencken, Timothy Leary, Ezra pound, Benjamin Tucker, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Raymond Chandler Elephant duty comics I…

…traumatic experiences in childhood no doubt. But all those guys are getting fired because they can't pee on camera. Well as Mencken said the United States remains the wonder and envy of all other and hence lesser nations. Reagan is obviously the intelligent…

…be to us, which gets less and less convincing as it's harder and harder to find enemies anymore. But as h l Mencken said, the chief tactics of democratic politics are to convince the public there's a deadly danger threatening them and then convince them…

…last, if you want them to be treasured items that will be passed on through the generations. But because, as h l Mencken said, puritanism is the haunting fear that somebody somewhere might be having a good time. And since we're in a basically puritanical…

…can't have any fun because all forms of fun are sinful. We've been brainwashed for the last 300 years by puritanism, which Mencken defined as the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere might be having a good time. And we've all been conditioned about cops.…

…will take care of you. As long as people have that kind of faith they're never going to stop fighting and killing each other. Mencken said religion is the chief fomentor of hatred in the history of the world. I would say faith is the chief fomentor of…

…the net. And then there's monotheism, which says there's one controlling intelligence which is like the paranoid conspiracy theories. And Mencken Couldn't see any evidence of one controlling intelligence any more than he could see total chaos so he decided…