Russell. Thompson. Pevernagie. The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his…
Monday Ménage: Brainless Swine. Visionary Hysteria. Profit In The Republic.
Thompson. Pevernagie. Mencken. The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back…
Monday Ménage: Edition Demagogue, Green Grass, and The Poor Bastards
Aristophanes. Pevernagie. Thompson. You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful…
Monday Ménage, But On Tuesday
H.L. Mencken. Hunter S. Thompson. John Lewis. In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common…
Monday Ménage Plus One
Haile Selassie I. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hunter S. Thompson. Julian Barnes. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And…
Monday Ménage
George Carlin. Robert Elliott Gonzales. Hunter S. Thompson. Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think…