Dolphins are just gay sharks

At Joe. My. God., I learned this morning that "dolphins are just gay sharks."

Quote: Mencken

This is from memory, and I haven't been able to trace it down to where I read it, so it isn't likely to be word for word.

"Never believe anything you read or hear from a man who would be fired if he said the opposite."  H.L. Mencken.

Remember this when reading newspaper editorials or listening to politicians.

Quote: Lichtenberg

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

G.C. Lichtenberg, Reflections, 1799 

Quote: Mencken

The last thing H.L. Mencken wrote before the stroke that ended his career was an article in the Baltimore Sun about the segregated public tennis courts in Baltimore. Some liberal troublemakers, black and white, had gone to the courts to try to play and had been arrested. Mencken's article was about how stupid that rule was in public accommodations. His last paragraph was:

In answer to all the foregoing I expect confidently to hear the argument that the late tennis matches were not on the level, but were arranged by Communists to make trouble. So far as I am aware this may be true but it seems to me to be irrelevant. What gave the Communists their chance was the existence of the Druid Hill Park Board's rule. If it had carried on its business with more sense they would have been baffled. The way to dispose of their chicaneries is not to fight them when they are right.

Quote: McNeill

We have to do the best we can with the language and concepts we inherit and not worry about obtaining a truth that will satisfy everyone, everywhere, and for all time

William H. McNeill, in the introduction to Plagues and Peoples, a fine book, inspired by Rats, Lice, and History, which is a very good book and a great title.

Quote: Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

--Henry Louis Mencken

Quote: Shaw

Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perepetuated.

George Bernard Shaw, in A Treatise on Parents and Children