The Writer’s Almanac has a little bit about H.L. Mencken today, his birthday (1880). NewMexiKen particularly liked this, Mencken’s translation of the Declaration of Independence into American English from Mencken’s The American Language (1919):
“When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they out to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on nobody.”