In many books of quotations and on thousands of websites H.L. Mencken is credited with the famous quote “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”…
Category: September 18
The first Letterman “Top Ten” list debuted 25 years ago today…
If you were watching David Letterman’s show on September 18, 1985, back when it was still on NBC and called Late Night with David Letterman, you saw a bit of…
SEPTEMBER 18 – Was Lincoln a Great Emancipator or a Great Obfuscator?
An Abraham Lincoln quotation that is often noted in modern, clear-eyed accounts of his life comes from one of his debates with Stephen Douglas, during their 1858 contest for an…