Nov 29, 2003
You have to wonder how much is hype and how much is real.
You have to wonder how much is hype and how much is real. I guess Wal-Mart and Macy's a having a good day today - the first shopping day of Christmas. My season is off to a whimpering start. The local newspaper reports that all the downtown merchants are going to have a 'shop locally' day sidewalk sale next week. Glad I read the newspaper once in a while because nobody bothered to tell any of the downtown merchants of these plans.
No votes
"Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters
of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters
of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.

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