"Inherit the Wind"

I'm going to sit down for the second half of "Inherit the Wind" this evening (staring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly). Good stuff, a story about the Scopes Monkey Trial, about the evolution of monkeys, and whether or not it could be taught in a Tennessee school to "simple folk." In the movie, a reporter dubes as the American Voltaire, H.L. Mencken.

If time and ambition allows, I'll draft a review for The Peasant Eye, and maybe draw some comparisons and contrasts with the contemporary shenanigans in Kansas. Why don't you fellahs try to catch it again (or for the first time). Maybe we can get a bit of dialog going on the Peasant Eye, too...

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Some idiot in Mela's lab is bugging her. I sent her “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.— H. L. Mencken." To which she, "And what about normal women? I feel like that approximately 3.4 times per day."

H L Mencken

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phase makes it, feminine intuition.
In Defense of Women [1918, rev. 1922], Part I, p.3

Thanks for reminding MFT of him, Mela and thanks MFT for a good catch. I love Mencken. Aphorisms and longer quotes.