cobalt going beige today on Nostr: The following part of Mencken's editorial is also enlightening: "when the field is ...

The following part of Mencken's editorial is also enlightening:

"when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum."

Snopes article verified the attribution.