Dogs Barking Idiotically Through Endless Nights

…endless saturnalia of bunk, of bluff, of stupidity, of insincerity, of false virtue, of nonsense, of pretense, of sophistry, of paralogy, of bamboozlement, of actorial posturing, of strident wind music, of empty words—even, at times, of downright fraud

I'm sorry, Mr. Menken, but you say nothing here to distinguish your era particularly.