Barton is such a lying tool. Chris Rodda catches him in an outright lie: Barton claims that gun accidents didn’t occur in 18th century America, and that he could only find two accounts of such problems. I guess he must be a very bad historian, then, in addition to lacking any sense, because Chris just …
Category Archive: History
Feb 12 2013
Happy Darwin Day!
I hope you all have grand plans to celebrate. I’m a bit swamped with work today, so I think I’ll be deferring my holiday to this weekend. I think I’ll go to Florida. We’ve just dug out from a blizzard, so I think it’s brilliant of me to flit down to Fort Lauderdale. Hmm. Maybe …
Feb 07 2013
A story
She stormed into the living room, throwing her tools at the storage bench. The clatter would have startled him, if he hadn’t heard her cursing all the way up the hill. “Vile-assed, scum-eating, mouth-breathing idiots!” She pointed an angry finger at him. “They wouldn’t know competence if it dropped a hammer on their toe, and …
Jan 26 2013
So…cats were useful in days of yore
I wouldn’t have thought it, but a 16th century text reveals something cats were good for: acting as bombs. I bet they weren’t very good at it, though. I can’t imagine our hypothetical explosive-laden cat charging towards the enemy, but is more likely to snuggle up in our beds or fuss about in our kitchen …
Jan 25 2013
The present is the past, the past is the present
Ken Ham is preaching about what science is again. He’s accusing the secular activist Zack Kopplin of being “brainwashed” by evolutionist propaganda, and to support this claim, he once again drags out the tired proposition that there are two kinds of science, historical and observational, and that only the observational kind is valid; well, unless …
Jan 22 2013
Root of all evil?
While I’m criticizing the South, I should also damn the whole country. They Yankees also contributed to the history of slavery: that whole second amendment thing that troubles us so much now was a sop to slavery, enabling ‘militias’ that were intended to capture escaped slaves and suppress insurrections. …most southern men between ages 18 …
Dec 30 2012
What were you doing in the 1950s?
Well, actually, I was sucking on a bottle and struggling to get potty trained, but I had enough of a taste of that era to shudder at the thought of revisiting it. The Nuclear Secrecy Blog is my idea of a scary horror story — don’t visit it unless you really want to get drawn …
Oct 17 2012
The Big Stunt
I refrained from joining in the enthusiasm for Felix Baumgartner’s 128,000 foot parachute jump. It was a spectacular act of bravery, but it was also little more than a colossal stunt and a $10 million advertising gimmick for Red Bull. I just didn’t see the point — there was nothing learned from this event — …
Sep 17 2012
Mazinaatesijigan Gekinoo’amaadiwin
Free movies on the UMM campus, open to all! Watch out for the woo, but you’ve got to appreciate the fact that oppressed peoples are expressing themselves in their own words about their lives and the destruction that has been wreaked on them. Mazinaatesijigan Gekinoo’amaadiwin Film Series (Films with Knowledge) For much of the 20th …
Sep 12 2012
Tom Holland is censored
Channel 4 in the UK made a program called “Islam: The Untold Story”, and got so many complaints and threats that they have cancelled the screening of the show. This is a disgrace: the program is a serious, historical look at Islam, and the protesters are complaining because it takes an objective look at the …
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