Showing posts with label Mencken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mencken. Show all posts

September 12, 2012

H. L. Mencken, Born September 12, 1880


Mencken photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932

Died January 29, 1956

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/H.+L.+Mencken

His proposed epitaph:
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

November 30, 2010

Columbia Psychiatrist Promotes Memory Loss

Memory loss occurs with meditation? Sounds like psychiatry is promoting memory loss. Will the product of college degrees be erased? What a wonderful way to make college a complete waste of time. Can't get a job with memory. This device will make it impossible. Good marketing can sell anything. Coke or Pepsi? H.L. Mencken reminded us that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. If this device sells it will prove Mencken right again.

[From article]
"But it has major side effects—memory loss, for instance
[. . .]
An enthusiastic convert to the device, Dr. Richard Brown, a psychiatrist at Columbia University, characterizes the effect on brain waves as being similar to that of meditation."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-30/fisher-wallace-stimulator-behind-the-do-it-yourself-shock-therapy/?cid=hp:mainpromo5

Do-It-Yourself Shock Therapy
by Casey Schwartz
Daily Beast
November 30, 2010