No one in this world, so far as I know and I have researched the records for years,

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

No one in this world, so far as I know and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. H.L. Mencken

[postulater]

1. We're doomed.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I can handle the supreme being guiding evolution...

because if there is a supreme being, that would be part of the job description and doesn't really get in the way of science. Much, anyway.

But that whole orange part is just nuts.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. H.L. Menken was literally opposed to representative democracy. He was a racist and elitist.

Here's another quote from him:
""I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however carefully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it. The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him."

So while is it popular in some quarters to quote his anti democratic snark, I put no stock in the man's point of view.