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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.

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust denial

A chip off the ol’ block?

I’ve written before about Hutton Gibson (Mel Gibson’s father) and serious crank, conspiracy theorist and proud Holocaust denier. I even speculated, based on Mel’s cagey answers to direct questions about the Holocaust, speculating about whether he shares some of Hutton’s beliefs. I ended up guessing that Mel just didn’t want to criticize his father, no […]