A Carnival of Buncombe

When I came up for the name for this site and the companion LJ community I started my intent was to allude to a favorite Mencken essay. I misremembered the phrase. He was talking about literary criticism. I think it works just as well for any fool, quack or charlatan.

The only sort of criticism that can deal with them to any profit is the sort that employs them frankly as laboratory animals. It cannot cure them, but it can at least make an amusing and perhaps edifying show of them. It is idle to argue that the good in them is thus destroyed with the bad. The simple answer is that there is no good in them.

I'm not sure how many pages I'll eventually add here. The Gullibility Weblog, allowing for lapses of free time or inclination, has new new tales of folly added regularly.

In the earliest edition of my website the section was called Clarity. My friend, George, used to tell people that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary to see if they'd be gullible enough to check. Thinking that pretty funny I changed this section's name. But "Gullibility isn't in the dictionary" was too long for menus. I used "Ignorance is funny" insteady. Liking all three I've let them all persist. Leading perhaps to a little confusion.