Fri. December 05, 2008
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Independent
December 5, 2008
"The human suffering that it [Prohibition] entailed," wrote HL Mencken, journalism's bard of the age, "must have been a fair match for that of the Black ...
The Ledger
December 5, 2008
It lasted, as journalist HL Mencken would later write, "an elapsed time of 12 years, 10 months and 19 days. It seems almost a geologic epoch while it was ...
Asia Times Online
December 5, 2008
He can be reached at kewing@hkis.edu.hk. Notes on Democracy by HL Mencken. Dissident Books (October 15, 2008). ISBN-10: 0977378810. Price US$14.95, 208 pages.
Black Hills Pioneer
December 4, 2008
Most of them have never heard of Henry Louis "HL" Mencken, the curmudgeon newspaperman of the old Baltimore Sun, but I usually give them one of his famous ...
Reason Online
December 3, 2008
To paraphrase
HL Mencken, the solution was neat, plausible, and wrong. No
market is truly illiquid. Last summer,
Merrill Lynch unloaded a bunch of bad debt ...
Reason Online
December 3, 2008
The Center for
science in the Public Interest (the self-described "food police") have elevated puritanism--defined by
HL Mencken as "The haunting fear that ...
Prince George Citizen
December 3, 2008
As journalist HL Mencken observed, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." And yet I sense that there is ...
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition
December 3, 2008
HL Mencken once said "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ...
New York Observer
December 2, 2008
I know you will not dare to publish this, fearing to offend what HL Mencken called the 'great booboisie' of readers. Another is more favorable, ...
Conde Nast Portfolio
December 2, 2008
... a longtime media critic, must surely be familiar with: this classic line from HL Mencken, the legendary last-century journalist and critic.
The Times
December 1, 2008
HL Mencken on Franklin D Roosevelt: "If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin ...
The Times
November 29, 2008
HL Mencken on Franklin D Roosevelt: "If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin ...
Chicago Tribune
November 27, 2008
But she does cheerfully and effectively shoot down many of the misleading spoilsport stereotypes spread by critics such as HL Mencken, who once remarked ...
Royse City Herald Banner
November 26, 2008
... Edward VIII, Charlie Chaplin,
HL Mencken, Adlai Stevenson and
Bertrand Russell - and wrote about them giving his personal insights. ...
Waterbury Republican American
November 26, 2008
HL Mencken "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - Thomas Reed. ...
Clarke County Democrat
November 25, 2008
HL Mencken (1880 - 1956) History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is ...
Illinois Valley News
November 25, 2008
(Psalm 9:2); I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. (HL Mencken)
Forbes
November 25, 2008
On June 22, 1936, two months after I was born, HL Mencken wrote the following in The Baltimore Sun: "The insurance of small deposits, even if the insurance ...
ScienceBlogs
November 25, 2008
John Derbyshire recounts an interesting experience at the HL Mencken Club: Well, so there I was sitting down to dinner on the first evening of this ...
Daily Times
November 25, 2008
... through video-conferencing from
Islamabad reminds me of
HL Mencken's line that "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince". ...
Cape Breton Post
November 24, 2008
... Bertram Cates and EK Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, John Scopes and HL Mencken, respectively. ...
The National
November 23, 2008
It was the humorist and philosopher HL Mencken who famously said: "Nobody ever went broke by under-estimating public taste." After the affair of the flying ...
Columbus Dispatch
November 23, 2008
DH Lawrence, Thomas Mann,
george orwell, Gwyn Griffin and - moving to the
Americans - Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner,
HL Mencken. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 23, 2008
"The biggest story since the resurrection," said
HL Mencken. The San Jose
kidnapping was one of the most sensational crime cases of the bleak days of the ...
Houston Chronicle
November 21, 2008
To paraphrase
HL Mencken, no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the
American people. And to paraphrase hoaxer Gordon Hull, there'sa sucker ...
New York Times
November 21, 2008
Take
HL Mencken's American
mercury, which captured the gaudy, gorgeous America of the 1920s and 30s. It was edited largely from Mencken's Baltimore home and ...
PBS
November 21, 2008
He knew
HL Mencken, Lauren Bacall,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Duke Ellington. He played jazz on the piano. He lived in Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Park. ...
Baxter Bulletin
November 19, 2008
HL Mencken "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." Thomas Reed "A government ...
IT-Director.com
November 19, 2008
HL Mencken Join us for the December 2008 meeting of the
Kansas City Data Management Association chapter (KC DAMA). This presentation provides a systematic ...
Western Standard- Shotgun Blog
November 17, 2008
The quintessential journalist, as far as I'm concerned, was HL Mencken -- a man who took no guff, had no stars in his eyes, was cynical, and vicious with ...
Times Online
November 16, 2008
HL Mencken, usually a great journalist, covered the trial in the worst possible way, making friends with the simple-minded believers down there, ...
Newsday
November 16, 2008
"Soon enough," writes Beam, "the Great Books were synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and HL Mencken's benighted boobocracy." Many bought the books; ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
November 16, 2008
HL Mencken famously said that "no one in this world, so far as I know . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence" of the
American people. ...
Tampabay.com
November 15, 2008
By Robert Bryce, Slate HL Mencken once remarked that there is a "well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ...
New York Times
November 14, 2008
HL Mencken, a self-absorbed curmudgeon, wouldn't have thought much of my efforts. He looked down his nose at everybody, especially those not to the manor ...
Greensboro News Record
November 14, 2008
During that period, Quillen was sometimes compared to Mark Twain and regarded as the South's answer to HL Mencken. Hammond's book offers a fascinatingly ...
International Herald Tribune
November 14, 2008
Like that other lay linguist HL Mencken, who beat the pros at their own game with "The American Language," he figures that if amateurs are qualified to ...
AMERICAN.COM
November 13, 2008
Luminaries such as
HL Mencken helped shape the city's rich
cultural heritage. These days, Baltimore is widely known as one of America's most blighted cities ...
