Two years after letting loose a crazy tirade against sports bloggers for being profane children, Buzz Bissinger lets loose a childish, crazy tirade about how he is now going to be a profane Twitterer.
Sucks to have accomplished nothing since Friday Night Lights, you sanctimonious douche nozzle.
I have to think (and experiment) every single time I want to decipher one of these keyboard “shortcuts”.
Word. I have used a Mac since 2002 and still don’t remember the silly symbols for option and control.
The FBI really refers to the Russkies as Moscow Center? Paging John Le Carre… Next up, their handler was really named Karla.
It’s 12:30am and I’m sitting in the Seattle airport waiting for a flight to Korea. That will be home for the next two years and preparations for the move (that approach the D-Day invasion in complexity) are the reason things have been quiet around here. I have four hours before my flight leaves and another ten on the plane to write up some things. Stand by to stand by.
P.S. Happy Fourth of July…
UPDATE: Made it.
Well said. I’ve been a fan of Mickey Kaus since before his blog was on Slate. He is a stand-up liberal, a rare breed these days.
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I see that Michael Bellesiles has a new book coming out. Who? Why should I care?
A quick rundown: In 2000, Bellesiles wrote a book called Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture. His general premise was that the commonly held view that America’s “gun culture” dates back to colonial times was a myth and in actuality very few people owned guns until after the Civil War. Eventually academics and journalists started to questions his conclusions, and more importantly, his research methods. For a synopsis of what happened next, see this Wikipedia article, but the fallout was anything but pretty (spoiler alert):
A negative finding from an internal Emory University review led to an external investigation that was “deeply disturbed” by his conduct and found that he “willingly misrepresented the evidence.” Bellesiles resigned his tenured position at Emory, his Bancroft Prize for Arming America was rescinded by Columbia University for “scholarly misconduct”, as was his NEH grant.
I remember being fascinated with this story when it hit the blogs in 2002 and blowing off more than a few hours at work to read James Lindgrin’s devastating critique from the Yale Law Review that paints the book as nearly a complete fraud.
Why is this important again? Oh, yeah. Bellesiles has a new book coming out and here is how is publisher is marketing it:
”1877 is also notable as the comeback book for a celebrated U.S. historian. Michael Bellesiles is perhaps most famous as the target of an infamous “swiftboating” campaign by the National Rifle Association, following the publication of his Bancroft Prize-winning book Arming America (Knopf, 2000) – “the best kind of non-fiction,” according to the Chicago Tribune – which made daring claims about gun ownership in early America. In what became the history profession’s most talked-about and notorious case of the past generation, Arming America was eventually discredited after an unprecedented and controversial review called into question its sources, charges which Bellesiles and his many prominent supporters have always rejected.”
Replace ‘celebrated’ with ‘infamous’, replace ‘National Rifle Association’ with over ten independent academic researchers, journalists and bloggers, add in the part about the Bancroft Prize being rescinded, and use this quote from Roger Lane, who had originally given a positive review to Arming America:
“It is entirely clear to me that he’s made up a lot of these records. He’s betrayed us. He’s betrayed the cause. It’s 100 percent clear that the guy is a liar and a disgrace to my profession. He’s breached that trust.”
Do all those things, and maybe this marketing blurb can return from the complete fantasyland it currently resides in. Although, I hear Jayson Blair is the mayor down there…
One of the best blog posts this year, on any topic.
My current machine is an Apple PowerMac Dual 2.0 G5 which I’ve had since February 2006. I’ve added an additional hard drive and bumped up the RAM (twice). It’s a perfectly fine machine. Does what I need it to. However, it’s not an Intel machine and can’t run Snow Leopard (10.6). And the ramifications of that are starting to show. Here’s a current list of apps I’ve been an interested in the last few months that require either an Intel processor and/or Mac OS 10.6:
Update: And Google Chrome
Dear Editors: I’m a daily reader of your RSS feed. Please, for the love of all things holy, increase the font size to something legible. It looks like crap in Google Reader, NetNewsWire and Reeder. Thanks.