Just a quick note to let you know that I have to change the theme here at Heaving Dead Cats. I found one I am in love with (I have no idea why, but it’s very different), and I’ll be trying to implement it as quickly and efficiently as possible, to impact you the least I [...]

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe – that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud.

H L Mencken, in The American Mercury, January, 1924

Actually, here is the full quote, in context:

Of a piece with the absurd pedagogical demand for so-called constructive criticism is the doctrine that an iconoclast is a hollow and evil fellow unless he can prove his case. Why, indeed, should he prove it? Is he judge, jury, prosecuting officer, hangman? He proves enough, indeed, when he proves by his blasphemy that this or that idol is defectively convincing—that at least one visitor to the shrine is left full [...]