H.L. Mencken

Let’s kick this off with one comment from a writer – a fairly successful and well-respected one. As H.L. Mencken said: “No one in this world, so far as I know … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” And if you needed proof, here it […]

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H.L. Mencken, the American iconoclast, depicted Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Could the same idea apply to the killjoys at Amazon who so cruelly made the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire HD less of an e-book machine and more of a billboard and cash register? Granted, many readers might not object because the Web has inured [...]