Is this progress?

Is this progress?

 

Mencken, young
Baltimore’s late, (and in several entertaining ways, though not in all) great H. L. Mencken
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

“A newspaper,” remarked H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), “is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”

 

What on earth would he have made of the Web?

 

 

Posted from Ka’anapali, Maui, Hawai’i

 

 


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