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Some quick hit thoughts and links for a rainy Tuesday here:
Ron Paul (who I am not fond of) invokes on of my favorite Sinclair Lewis quotes (”When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”) to discuss Mike Huckabee’s latest campaign commercial. The Fox News show host nearly […]
Imagine for a moment you have dedicated your life to a cause. Perhaps some charismatic individual is at the forefront, and you received a brochure about it. You devote your life to it, and the pay is miserable. You never meet the leader. You never even hear a word from him. You live basically in […]
Sometimes in my whimsical moments I dream of going back in time - far back - and becoming the greatest inventor the world has ever seen. I mean, think of all the things I’d know! I’d be a combination of da Vinci and Nostradamus. I’d make Tesla look like a copycat. The Royal Society in […]
You just gotta argue. This is what happens when people graduate with a CompSci degree instead of switching to a history major.
Just recently I railed against the History Channel’s mediocre representaton of the early middle ages, and I think with good reason. The show was meant to be educational and a true history of the time. It failed in those respects, and deserves to be called on it.
However there are times when there is also good […]
You know, when “History” is in the name of a channel, you’d expect them to get the history right above all else. Sadly, that isn’t what happened. Me being the medieval history dork that I am, I was pretty excited to see their Dark Ages special. I had high hopes - I hoped they’d work […]
(This is the first in my series of “Long Posts” - meaning, I was bored, find the subject fascinating, and just love reading and babbling about it. And of course I encourage discussion, if any of you get down far enough to the comment box.)
Have you ever stared up into the night sky and asked […]
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