It’s very disturbing. And yes, it was clear early on that it was a parody of the killing of “Mr. Howard,” aka Jesse James.
So do today’s kids know Yogi? Is it on the cartoon channels? Or are they being introduced via the new movie?
Category Archives: History
Cultural Defenses Of Incest
Thoughts from Eugene Volokh. I found interesting the comment about the intrinsic incompatibility between Christian and Jewish law in this regard. But I agree with Glenn — if father/daughter relations are an intrinsic part of the culture at Columbia University, academia is in even bigger trouble than we thought.
Dwindling
Sixty-nine years later, there aren’t many survivors of Pearl Harbor left. The war itself is passing out of living memory. And sadly, many of the lessons learned from it will probably have to be relearned, at the cost of how knows how many more innocent lives.
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Bing remembers. But it’s just another day to Google. You’d think it a significant date even to a “citizen of the world.”
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When Japan attacked.
Did Stalin Commit Genocide?
…and does it matter?
I think the answers are yes, and no. This artificial distinction between “genocide” and the mass murder on a grander scale by Stalin, Mao et al is just a means to distract from the fact that Hitler was not the worst man in history, and that his depredations were actually typical of the left.
Ancient Rome
And the Jetsons. From (who else?) Lileks.
Honoring Those Who Sacrificed For Us
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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It’s Not Just NPR
It’s time to defund the National Endowment for the Humanities. They have a right to debauch history and denigrate our country, and even poison the minds of our youth, but they have no right to taxpayer dollars with which to do so.
Repatriate Our Revolution
Daniel Hannan says that it’s time for Brits to party like it’s 1773.
The Spirits Of England
For Halloween, some interesting history of Albion ghosts, at The Independent.