http://www.bigeye.com/mencken.htm
Here's a link to Mencken on the merits of democracy.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Religiosity
Mencken thought that religiosity was exceptional.
http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/10/30/american-exceptionalism/
http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/10/30/american-exceptionalism/
Monkey trial
Here's a web page about the Mencken comments on the Scopes trial.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk.htm
Still relevant today
Here's an essay on the modern relevance of Mencken.
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Mencken/government.html
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Mencken/government.html
Mencken on Women
Mencken wrote about women.
Here's an essay on Mencken's views, which were unusual for his age, or any age.
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Mencken/women.html
Here's an essay on Mencken's views, which were unusual for his age, or any age.
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Mencken/women.html
April 7, 1933 - An Epochal Event in the Onward March of Humanity
April 7, 1933 was a good day for HL Mencken. That was the day that Prohibition lapsed. Americans could drink beer again. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933) As Marion Elizabeth Rodgers wrote, "...no reporter had worked harder than Mencken to bring about Prohibition's end."
Mencken reportedly said, "Under the leadership of a personable, attractive and forceful man,we have cast off the cursed yoke imposed by a parcel of umbrella-brandishing halitotic harridans who forced the standards of Goosetown and Waterville, Ohio, upon New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Union Hill, New Jersey."
"Perhaps the first time in history that any of essential liberties of man has been gained without the wholesale emission of blood."
Mencken reportedly said, "Under the leadership of a personable, attractive and forceful man,we have cast off the cursed yoke imposed by a parcel of umbrella-brandishing halitotic harridans who forced the standards of Goosetown and Waterville, Ohio, upon New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Union Hill, New Jersey."
"Perhaps the first time in history that any of essential liberties of man has been gained without the wholesale emission of blood."
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