He was a LIBERTARIAN who hated Socialists, Quacks, and Jesus Freaks in equal spades.
My kind of guy!!!
I guess I'd agree with well under half of what Mencken said. I certainly do not share his contempt for Christianity, for instance. But he was original, interesting, clever, and wickedly funny. Wouldn't mind having his gifts. I think he was the closest thing American liberals have had to a Coulter or a Steyn, and he wouldn't entirely fit the mold of a liberal today -- he may have been anti-war, anti-religion, and so forth, but he was also anti-government.