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History Holocaust Holocaust denial

Speaking of bad history…

…I love it when Nick Terry makes dim Holocaust deniers run away just by asking them to back up their claims.

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History

Bad, bad, bad history!

The latest Carnival of Bad History, the blog carnival dedicated to the discussion of the misuse and misunderstanding of history, has landed over at Liberty and Power.

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History

The History Carnival

The latest edition of the History Carnival, a blog carnival of writing about–what else?–history has been posted at Mode for Caleb. Enjoy. While I’m hawking carnivals, I won’t forget hawk my own. Be sure to join Interverbal tomorrow for the Skeptics Circle.

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History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Sports World War II

Baseball and the never-ending hunger

Deep within Yankee Stadium, a timeless evil had arrived (well, an evil around 61 years old, anyway–well, 117 years old if you count its entire existence) shambling through the dark service corridors and halls, on a never-ending quest to satisfy its unquenchable hunger. Why it had come to this place, it did not know. Perhaps […]

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History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Politics

Jon Stewart on idiotic Hitler analogies

With the appearance of the Hitler Zombie twice in less than a month on this blog, Andrew Mathis was inspired to send me this YouTube video. He’s right; it’s perhaps the best commentary I’ve heard about the use of the Hitler analogy or argumentum ad Nazium to demonize one’s political opponents.