From Word of The Day for August 5, 2004
Trivia: Bloviate is closely associated with U.S. President Warren G. Harding, who used it frequently and who was known for long, windy speeches. H.L. Mencken said of him, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."

Other H.L. Mencken quotes:

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."