One day at a particularly quiet moment in the normally noisy newsroom where he worked, young H. L. Mencken shouted at the top of his lungs, "It's coming in the doors!" Needless to say, everyone stopped and looked in his direction.

"It's up to the bottom of the desks!" said Mencken as he rose to his feet. "It's up to the seats of our chairs!" he shouted as he jumped onto his chair.

"What are you talking about?" asked one of his incredulous colleagues.

"It's up to the tops of our desks!" shouted Mencken as he jumped to the top of his desk.

"What do you mean?" rang a chorus of shouts.

"Mediocrity!" came the caustic reply. "We're drowning in mediocrity!" he shouted over and over as he jumped from the desk and rushed out the door, never to return. (1)

H. L. Mencken was a prophet far ahead…