Ashyknees' Time Killer

The author is willing, but her punctuation is weak.

Friday, February 15, 2008

News Flash: Some Historians are Full of Crap

I've just wasted 20 minutes of my lunch hour looking for substantive analysis and information on HNN. After reading Ralph E. Luker's useful essays, such as this examination of a Harriet Tubman quote, I thought that maybe the rest of the site would give me more to chew on.

It turns out that many pieces on this website contain as much partisan fluffernutter and as many byzantine twists of logic as any newspaper editorial. Even pieces that seemed reasonable at first glance crumbled shortly after that "wait a minute. . ." epiphany that follows a thorough bamboozling.

What a shame! I should have known.