The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

Odd that Hindus are more likely to believe the holocaust was exaggerated than Muslims. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

[Syt]

Odd that Hindus are more likely to believe the holocaust was exaggerated than Muslims. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

Swastika bias.

[Sheilbh]

This Marxist essay on Italy and Europe is very good:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster

[Admiral Yi]

This Marxist essay on Italy and Europe is very good:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster

He certainly has a very impressive vocabulary.

[Capetan Mihali]

This Marxist essay on Italy and Europe is very good:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster

Perry Anderson's a national treasure of British Marxian history. I was just putting his Lineages of the Absolutist State back on the shelf this morning.

Also, his brother Benedict. (Most social science/humanities students end up reading getting assigned some photocopied chapters of Imagined Communities at some point in their undergraduate education.)

[Sheilbh]

Perry Anderson's a national treasure of British Marxian history.

I'm a huge fan of EP Thomson, so I've always viewed Anderson with a little suspicion

British Marxist history should be protected by the UN as some sort of national cultural patrimony. The history books of that age are outstanding and beautifully written.

Edit: They remind me of that Disraeli line on Gladstone and the liberals:
'As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers from a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.'

[Tonitrus]

http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-just-hosted-the-best-political-debate-of-the-year-214051999.html

[Razgovory]

Odd that Hindus are more likely to believe the holocaust was exaggerated than Muslims. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

Hindu nationalists are a nasty bunch.  Interesting that Athiests are more likely to think the Holocaust is exaggerated compared to Christians.

[Eddie Teach]

A lot of Russians are atheists.

[The Brain]

Odd that Hindus are more likely to believe the holocaust was exaggerated than Muslims. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

Hindu nationalists are a nasty bunch.  Interesting that Athiests are more likely to think the Holocaust is exaggerated compared to Christians.

What a shocker that atheists are less prone to believe exaggerated BS.

[Sheilbh]

Odd that Hindus are more likely to believe the holocaust was exaggerated than Muslims. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

Hindu nationalists are a nasty bunch.  Interesting that Athiests are more likely to think the Holocaust is exaggerated compared to Christians.

Lefties, I'm afraid.

[Eddie Teach]

What a shocker that atheists are less prone to believe exaggerated BS.

Case in point.

[CountDeMoney]

Also, his brother Benedict. (Most social science/humanities students end up reading getting assigned some photocopied chapters of Imagined Communities at some point in their undergraduate education.)

I did at Loyola.  Nationalism in 19th Century Europe.  Still have my copy.  Great course, too.

[Admiral Yi]

Anyone know what US Grant's real name was, and how he got the new one?

[garbon]

Anyone know what US Grant's real name was, and how he got the new one?

I looked that up and that's kind of cool (if true) that he didn't want initial HUG so he started going by his middle name.

But no, I had no idea.