Today's Galileo? Oh, Please. Just Shoot Me (Bellisiles and guns. Again.)

Wall St. Journal ^ | Feb. 6, 2004 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

[Pharmboy]

History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles.

[Pharmboy]

This guy just won't go away.

Thank God for the Wall Street Journal: not afraid to call a liar a liar and laugh at him at the same time.

[Pharmboy]

Bang.

[cripplecreek]

You dont suppose global warming caused the flood that stripped him of his notes and research?

[neverdem]

BTTT

[Buffettbassman]

This is DU material guys!

I will gladly fight for the right of all American bears to be armed!


Wait..dyslexic...I support the right for all Americans to live with Armed Bears.

...never mind... I think the NRA is going to revoke my life membership!

[G.Mason]

Not being a genius myself, this may be presumptuous on my part, but shouldn't that be .......

"Or as the old saying goes: "To be a persecuted genius, you not only have to be persecuted; you also have to be right a genius."

[prion]

"There are those who rest their very identity on the notion of a certain, unchanging past."

Yeah, like all of us who aren't psychotic. Of course the past doesn't change! We may unearth facts that give us new insights, but it is a dangerous liberal conceit that every generation needs to "reinterpret" history to support its own fashionable causes.

[neverdem]

Pharmboy has made this bonehead look like Lazarus.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"...There are those who rest their very identity on the notion of a certain, unchanging past..."

Soviet historians, it was said, could fearlessly divine the ineluctable future, but could never predict the ever changing past.

[Pharmboy]

LOL!! (But please don't give the lefties any ideas...)

[Snuffington]

In a way this is kind of fun. It has to be terribly embarrassing to esteemed liberal intellectual arms, like the NY Times Review of Books, who lauded this guy to the sky. Now he's not only thoroughly discredited, but he's proving himself to be a full-fledged kook who won't shut up and go away. And he keeps repeating his hilarious "dog ate my homework" excuses to boot. He's dragging down the credibility of all the libs who believed him.

[Buffettbassman]

Check out this guys tagline! I love it!

[neverdem]

BANG

[cripplecreek]

It all started with an old republican lady who swallowed a fly. I dont know why, i guess she'll die.

[Kozak]

Soft Skull Press

Seems he found an appropriate publisher. I wonder if Michael Moore has tried them.

[Buffettbassman]

Or in Uday and Qusay's case...BOOM!

[Pharmboy]

Soviet historians, it was said, could fearlessly divine the ineluctable future, but could never predict the ever changing past.

I had never seen that before. Worth repeating.

[Buffettbassman]

It's amazing how articulate and absurd coexist.

[A. Pole]

An academic bombshell, the tome went against long-held beliefs by claiming that few colonial Americans actually owned guns.

Americans at that time were using bows and arrows instead. Or maybe it was American Indians?

Mr. Bellesiles, when asked to explain, provided ever-more outlandish excuses: that his notes had been lost in a flood, that his Web site had been hacked, that he couldn't remember where he'd found certain documents.

Did he check his dog? I suspect that dog ate his notes.

Either way the great discovery of Mr. Bellesiles will become unquestionable truth together with global warming, deadliness of second hand smoking, genetic gay (joyful) nature of homosexuality, benefits of free trade and genocide in Kosovo/Srebrenica.

[Buffettbassman]

If his dog ate his notes, don't you think we should lodge a complaint with PETA because he mistreated the animal, which he should not be keeping in animal slavery any way, by leaving the notes where the previously free range, feral canine could be easily posioned by the old wood forest tree pulp which was treated with countless polluting agents and ruining the environment.

The cad!