10 October 2005 - Monday
Updating
Google Labs has released a beta version of Google Reader for Web syndication feeds. So far, I like some aspects of the interface, but I think a lot needs to be done to make feeds easier to organize. It was a little buggy yesterday, but when it was working, it was really fast. I think I may recommend Google Reader for people who check their aggregator constantly.
You do use syndication to keep track of blogs, right?
Meanwhile:
Former Army chaplain James Yee describes his experiences as a prisoner of the United States.
National Review's David Frum explains why the Miers nomination is not a good thing for conservatives.
Ken Ristau reconstructs late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America to demonstrate that George W. Bush did not exist (via PaleoJudaica). Note: I really think this is mainly historiographic, not political, satire.
The sheer outlandishness and improbability that you would have two presidents with the same names, engage in parallel international conflicts with the same enemy (and this second one as a "preemptive" invasion), and be surrounded by many of the same characters strains credulity. It is, therefore, manifestly obvious that this second George Bush never existed. The tradition is, in fact, what we historians call a doublet.
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I think you're right about it being an historiographical satire: the parallels in duToit's piece to the Textual Criticism and "Jesus Seminar" scholarship are ... unsubtle. The follow-up is an interesting riff on the problems of proto-historical sources, very similar to the kinds of arguments we have in Japanese history over the earliest written histories.
They're funny, though.
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Although perhaps Richard Whately's Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte is also on the table?
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As put in an 'historiographic satire': “…the so-called World War II.”
The thoughts of MortimerRandolph on 11 October 2005 - 0:23 CentralWhich I assume grew out of the mythology surrounding The Great War, it having surely provided the basis for these supposed 'World Wars I & II'...
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