If patriotism '..IS the last refuge of the scoundrel'?

Post #332,758 by Ashton 9/18/10 6:23:28 PM Reply	If patriotism '..IS the last refuge of the scoundrel'? (And when ever did Mencken get-it-wrong?) We need an imaginative similar koan for, Obstructionism is the last refuge of the ?_____? (Simultaneously: as to the ongoing msm- et al's complete amnesia/disinterest in the Difference between some flavor of 'ConservatismÂ' -VS- all that is implicit in that Other politico-category, Reactionism) -- I don't expect nuance ever to enter the yes/no digital-think habit / that now rampant anathema of this Age of Decline. And of hamster cages full of people mesmerized by a screen full of numbers for 8 hrs./day -- (or is it now more like 10-12? what with work-brought-home + cel-fone umbilical.) Carrion with the slogans; they all just merge into white noise anyway. After a few decades of the sillier ones.
Post #332,763 by Andrew Grygus 9/18/10 8:04:03 PM Reply	That's not Mencken, it's Samual Johnson. I more agree with Ambrose Bierce though Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
Post #332,770 by Ashton 9/19/10 12:03:30 AM Reply	Yes, of course - brain-sort 404. Bierce is er, orthogonal? as he focuses on the nature of the flammable material ... awaiting ignition by the next cretin besotted with personal-Certainty. Added to inspirational List. Have to scan some more Bierce soon; it's been awhile since I perused the Curmudgeon's Home Companion.. thanks for tip.
Post #332,774 by boxley 9/19/10 1:01:08 AM Reply	what does Bierce have to do with bird watching? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #332,778 by Ashton 9/19/10 4:31:30 AM Reply	RTFP, er, thread I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers! -- via RC

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