From the "Why-Didn't-I-Think-of-This-Before?" Department If anybody needs proof of just how easily some of the smartest people can be fooled into believing absurdities, and refuse to recant even long after the absurdity has been exposed irrefutably, here is a short version of H. L. Mencken's famous "Tale of a Tub," from the year 1917. This is from the last chapter in Bergen Evans's classic, The Natural History of Nonsense (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946, 275 pp. plus index). Copyright has … [Read more...]