H.L.+Mencken

= = **H.L. Mencken**

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Biography**: ​Henry Louis Mencken, more commonly known as H.L. Mencken, was //born on September 12, 1880 (died on January 29, 1956)// in //Baltimore Maryland//.

He was //privately educated// and //graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at the age of 16//. From there, Mencken became a reporter for the //Baltimore Herald,// then the city editor, and quickly the editor in full for the newspaper.
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H.L. Mencken was the most distinguished //newspaperman//, //book reviewer//, //political commenter//, and overall //critic//, in his day. Mencken's original and crisp-style of writing displayed his obvious passion and joy he took in his work. He was also a libertarian, and a man who wasn't afraid to say what was on his mind. Though many condemed him as a racist and anti-Semite (or someone against those Jewish), Mencken had quite a bit to say about the American culture and a country as a whole and made sure the public could read about it. ​ Henry was also a tad wet, meaning that he was against the Prohibition act from start to finish. In addition to his love and constant habit to smoke cigars, paritally because his father owned a cigar manufacturing company, Mencken adored every and all alcohol beverage out there at the time. As a result H.L. //coined the term// "ombibulous" to describe his prejudice in favor of alcohol. As a critic of many subjects, Mencken was also successful in getting his opinions and educated thoughts out and open to the rest of the public and offered new ideas from a different perspective, regardless of how it would be taken.
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​> "//Dachshund - A half-a-dog-high and a dog-and-a-half long//." ​> "//Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.//" >"**I believe it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant**." >  ​>"//Nature abhors a moron//."
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H.L Mencken admired George Bernard Shaw (1905) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1908) and even had studies published on them. __http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/menckenbio.html__
 * Influences**:

Peter Bagge is said to be a modern day comparison to H.L. Mencken becasue of the fact that he is a libertarian and exercises his freedom as speech similar to that of H.L. __http://highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2009/07/peter-bagge-modern-day-mencken.html__
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