I'm a great fan of Mencken, as well as Ambrose Bierce and I.F. Stone. I love the idea of essays, but have struggled my whole adult life to find voices who can w

I'm a great fan of Mencken, as well as Ambrose Bierce and I.F. Stone. I love the idea of essays, but have struggled my whole adult life to find voices who can write from my own experiences. So, I stay passionate about keeping the art alive on my own: https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/archive/ https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/archive/ I've written about homelessness in the Bible Belt- a supremely taboo topic; and I've observed commonalities between the ideals of Pope Francis' detractors within Roman-Catholicism and that of Positive Christianity- the denomination literally begat by the Nazis. I draw more parallels than conclusions, but having gone to a school without a debate program I feel obligated to define as many left-field arguments as I can, for posterity or for poops and giggles.