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Old 01-18-2011, 06:17 PM
Charles Charles is offline
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Sadly Mencken was before my time.

Can you imagine Royko with the Chicago machine running the country! He'd be in sarcastic journalistic heaven

Pete
My all time favorite Mencken quote, to the best of my recollection:

"A journalist is someone who is unable to differate between a bicycle wreck and the end of civilization."

Chas
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