A Very Harry Christmas

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. —Henry Louis Mencken
I'm finishing the last of my three Mencken tomes, and I added another box of bulbs to my fiber-optic tree (Humbug). Tonight I attended the last of the Great Composers lecture series— Lennie Bernstein— wow, fascinating faggot. How do people live without lectures? The Art Institute has a promising schedule for January.