Territorial Bloggings

A few weeks back, I finally broke down and gave in. On a trip to the local public library, I checked out copies of Dan Brown’s novels Angels & Devils and The DaVinci Code. Even more, I actually read them!
Vast amounts of ink have been spilled reviewing, discussing, bemoaning, and condemning these novels, especially [...]

Sometimes, I’m just truly taken aback at the ways in which folks will try to legitimize unbelief & skepticism.
I guess the out & out fictional balderdash of The Davinci Code wasn’t good enough (even though way too many folks have been led astray by the idea that that piece of hack fiction is actually cleverly [...]

As usual, World Magazine has some good grist for the cogitation mill…
I like History. In elementary & high school, I always liked Social Studies, and in college I got my BA in History. History is cool, History is interesting, History is power (at least the writing of it…). Historiography (i.e., the methodology of History or [...]

How I feel about revisionist historians is a paraphrase of how Jake Blues felt about Illinois Nazis…
“Revisionist historians. I hate revisionist historians.”
Minor background info: I like History. I was a History major as an undergrad, and I wrote my Senior Thesis (or SIP for those of you familiar with the K-Plan) on American foreign policy [...]