H.L. Mencken, here pictured in 1932, is in the news because Johns Hopkins University has acquired thousands of his books and letters. But, with so many political books, his sayings seem especially apt. One politician's prose reminded him "of a string of wet sponges…It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Most people, he wrote, "are unable to write because they are unable to think."
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