David Brooks says, "I’ve lost confidence in our ability to predict

 where history is headed."  History isn't headed anywhere.

History is the body of knowledge produced by historians.

Chuck Todd says the Republican Party has been

taken over by anti-intellectualism.  He's a bit slow 

on the uptake.  Richard Hofstadter wrote a Pulitzer 

Prize-winning book about it over 50 years ago, 

eight years before Chuck was born.

Professor Stanley Fish Opines about Professors

 Who Opine about Donald Trump and Then Gazes 

into the Firmament

Dweebs, Dorks, and Doofuses #41

Sean Wilentz

Flag Desecration #60

Newt says "the left doesn't be-

lieve the Wright Brothers in-

vented flying."  That's correct:

insects invented flying.  Newt 

also says "the left doesn't be-

lieve Edison invented elec-

tric light."  That's also

correct:  God invented

electric light and called

it 'lightning'.  Newt knows

a lot about the left because

he's a historian.

A historian and a psychiatrist were asked to react to

this picture of Sarah Palin performing at CPAC.  The 

historian said, "In the time of the Second Great Awakening, 

this sort of behavior was known as the 'Barking Exercise'."  

The psychiatrist said, "NURSE!  Get me 500 mg. of 

Thorazine STAT!"

If he is such a great historian, why can't Newt Gingrich

remember when, as a lobbyist just two years ago, he

favored health-care legislation which included

an 'individual mandate'?

Historians Discover New Evidence Proving

Ronald Reagan and McGruff Were Playas

in Crypto-Socialist Underworld 

History does not repeat itself. What really happens
is that we repeat the same mistakes over and over
and then historians record them again and again.

With less than ten days of his presidency left,

George Walker Bush couldn't shake the feeling

he was being stalked by historians who intended

to whup his ass.