Baltimore\u2019s late, (and in several entertaining\u00a0ways, though not in all) great H. L. Mencken
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\u201cA newspaper,\u201d remarked H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), \u201cis a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
What on earth would he have made of the Web?<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cA newspaper,\u201d remarked H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), \u201cis a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.\u201d \u00a0 What on earth would he have made of the Web? \u00a0 \u00a0 Posted from Ka\u2019anapali, Maui, Hawai\u2019i \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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