Comments on: History For Dummies

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:15:45 +0000

The Soviets claimed that Jews were a nationality, Anya, but I have always considered it a religion. Without religion there isn’t a noticeable difference between Eastern Europeans, which is essentially the culture they are embracing.

Michael, this is “the best of times and worst of times” for historians, to paraphrase Boz. You learn these things in middle school, and it is certainly taught in Missouri. I want “No Congresscritter Left Behind” testing, although “Left Behind” has many meanings.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:59:13 +0000

Comedy gold, Bryan! But if I may paraphrase P.T. Barnum, nobody every went broke underestimating Americans’ ignorance of history–their own or anybody else’s.

By: Anya

Anya — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:49:56 +0000

Because Jewishness is an ethnicity as well as a religion. I know a number of Jews who are not only secular, but also atheists. They still claim their Jewish roots.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:20:23 +0000

I’m not certain how one can claim that there is a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the teachings of the Torah. This is the same as DonoWho referring to “secular Jews”. How can one be both “secular” and “Jewish”?

By: ellroon

ellroon — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:19:51 +0000

The best so far is Warren Chisum’s support for the Fixed Earth group and science education as a Semitic plot to negate the Bible…
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogspot.com/2007/02/warren-chisum-texas-state.html

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:18:33 +0000

I think members of Congress should be required to a standardized test on the American government and history. The results should be publicly posted so everyone can see how ignorant these people really are.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:33:42 +0000

Akin probably could have looked up the history on His Blackberry! What an idiot…but then most of the analogies of the right-wingers don’t make much sense.