Diuretic
Permanently confused
musicman said:Diuretic:
Point of order: I believe Mencken's quote addressed the taste of the American public - not our intelligence. That Bill Clinton was elected - twice - is a searing enough indictment of the latter, Lord knows.
Rising to respond to your point of order:
Mencken's quote is universal. After all the biggest selling daily newspaper in the UK is "The Sun" where football and tits are the order of the day. In Australia people get into a lather about "Big Brother" on tv and the second biggest story in our news all week has been a dispute about the results of a football game (football's important to me as a pasttime, let me hasten to add but you have to be here to appreciate the waste of frequency and newsprint on that particular topic).