h.l. mencken let's hang the bankers but he's saying he does say later there will be blood let you know and make no doubt about there will be blood because the. there is no justice in the system that the bankers are just getting away with every single crime well a lot of people ask me they say matching knows so much about banking why are you doing banking how can we not on wall street of you know so much because the risk is we're going to get torched are going to get home you're going to get shot you're going to get beaten up by the mob during the reign of terror i think they killed forty five thousand people i mean on a percentage of the population that works out to i think about one percent of france at the time applying those numbers to america we've got a long way to go upwards to three hundred thousand of these guys i don't want to be burned to death by the folks that are seeking retribution for the whole self thievery i would rather not take that risk blankfein in diamond in the rest of wall street they're happy with their risk i say good for you to take that risk but you and your fam

h.l. mencken.e was right because they mackie was very thoughtful and very witty, but also there was in place a mass media to broadcast his words to lesser people. here for, therefore. he would have to talk out through his publication, whatever it might be or three letters to people and like montagne people like that. now he could be a part of the mass media and he could kind of cross fertilize so to speak with hollywood. there is a lot of that in those days. and the time was right for him and the time was right for bill, and bill was a terrifically famous and versatile intellectual. but how this kind of brings us back to "god & man at yale" is that mencken was a very famous atheist and i think now we see that mencken tri-amped. the book is not at all relevant to any university i have ever been that because universities have gone so far toward modernity that it's hard to imagine them to come back. on the other hand, another way of putting it is the university is so irrelevant to our lives. we heard