Ambrose Bierce was and is the paragon for the people’s right to mock. Waking Ambrose is a weblog started February 28, 2005 for the purpose of opposing with Bierce’s wit and my own misanthropy the forceful extraction by large institutions of the cynicism of the citizenry. Initially, each day’s post began with a definition from Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary and a contemporary new definition of the same word. Although intended to bring Bierce’s jaundiced eye to the contemporary world, the site became fun to write and a public park in a community of magnificent readers and writers of weblogs. Pansies and all. The site now includes miscellany on Wednesdays and storytelling on Saturdays. The original content from Waking Ambrose is now available here, with the updated definitions listed alphabetically in The Prattler Wordbook. The 2007 storytelling includes episodes from a serialized short story, The Meditations of Diogenes The Cynic. A weekly column can be found at The Prattler. Navigate using the links at the top.