Ain’t That the Truth?

One of many apposite H.L. Mencken quotes:

“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”

H. L. Mencken.

What I’m Reading.

Yesterday, I started what promises to be a fascinating and entertaing read — H.L. Mencken’s On Religion. An acerbically witty journalist, magazine editor and critic of American culture during the early- to mid-1900s, he was a reporter on the infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial” and an avowed atheist.

At times jarringly politically incorrect by today’s smothering standards, I’m looking forward to settling down and reading the rest of it.