No doubt it has been said before that H.L. Mencken would have been well-suited to the blogging format. And the following quotation from Hemingway's
The Sun Also Rises could not help but remind me of
this post and the blogosphere in general:
[Mencken's] all right. He says some pretty funny things. ... He's through now. ... He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know.