Was your wife on the tour with you? Did her history degree mean that she knew more than the docents at Charlottesville?

What specifically was her master's thesis on? Please make it general so we don't have to look it up.

Master's degree in history? Isn't that, for rightwingers, the equivalent of basket-weaving?

The secondhand knowledge that you reflect from your ---------------- shows as much.

you're hiding ...

Db,
"What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there"
I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
Masters in history and years of in depth research and constant reading about many subjects.
And she's a beautiful human being.

Every time history is mentioned, you bring up your wife and her master's degree as if that absolves you and what you post here. Why should that change our mind? Why don't you have her log in here if your hiding under her skirts?

That must get tiring for you constantly thinking about and hating Trump.
#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

Constantly heralding your own thoughts and patting yourself on the back because Donald Trump shares what's going on in your head must leave you very well rested and at peace with yourself.

Nam myoho renge kyo.

www.amazon.com

#26 | Posted by Corky

Thanks, but they were pikers.

When the Spaniards tried to destroy Incan temples, they found the temples were built one inside another. Not just one big pyramid. More like Russian nesting dolls.

Dumb Western Europeans. And that was the culture they destroyed.

TJ wanted to kill all the Native Americans but save their languages to study them. Fact.

More BJ: 13. "Slavery and the wrist-slashing remorse and guilt amount to little more than virtue signaling by the left."

You are just a disgusting human being for this reason: You don't care that the country you love (hell, the entire hemisphere) was built on land stolen from one people while committing genocide against them and built literally on the backs of another.

Posted by BillJohnson:

5. "I'm not going to defend slavery but it was woven into the fabric of those times."

I've taken the tour too. You were looking for hagiography to support what you thought should be heard. Why? What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there, who are fully versed in their material? My wife was concerned there wasn't a tour of the slave quarters. That interested her very much, and she's as southern as you get (more so as the Alzheimer's takes full hold; you can draw your own conclusions).

11. "You just hate America. Why not just move away?" Will you do that when Trumpism dies?

13. "It started when they made the killing of unborn children." Abortion goes back thousands of years.

14. "TDS has become an obsession far out of proportion to the actual problems of our time." Which are what in your opinion? And Trump is in the middle of all actual problems of our time now. He's been president of These United States for a long time over a period of time, and never went away when he wasn't.

Bill: Recent scholarship talks about the use of enslaved people in the production of the New Testament. That'll give you something to cheer about. People under the boot.

How sick is it that Georgia news gets my attention because I lived there 20 years and never even heard of this?

I also edit for Everytown for Gun Safety. Still off my radar.

US pharmacopoeia: Take me away.

List of Retorters who don't come here for self-glorification, in one way or another:

Charles Manson would be a 36-hour news story these days.

#44 | Posted by Dbt2

Talk about media influence. He's living in people's heads longer than the Clintons are.

While we're at it, how about that Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle? Railroaded.

Tate/LoBianco.

Where are those glasses?

#31 I the secret of long life is, Be Kind, why did Henry Kissinger live to be 100?
Why did Robert Mugabe live to be almost as Old?
Charles Manson lived to be 84 mostly in Prison.
I see no connection or an inverse one.

#34 | Posted by Effeteposer

Because for some people, the secret of / motivation to a long life is anger and revenge.

As with the issue of abortion, I don't think anyone is pro-Charles Manson, but he's hardly a Mugabe or Kissinger. Please remember he was not even at the site of the Tate?LoBianco murders.

Charles Manson would be a 36-hour news story these days.

Did he utilize "utilize" when he could have just used "use?"
It's a pet peeve. :)

#38 | Posted by snoofy

And a worthy one.

rant

For those into the Flesch reading scales, "employ" would have the same value as "use" (one or two syllables considered the same for readability) and often works, depending on the context.

Free editing advice here. Don't trust Grammarly. I been around longer than them.

And the worst editor I ever knew could tell you the name of every tense in the book. People ask me that stuff and I say, "How the hell would I know?"

I edit mostly by ear, and no one has ever complained. And the usual "which-hunting" (see Fowler's Modern English Usage [19th c.]).

I'm doing my level best to make sure books include full sentences. "Not writing like this. Which is for idiots. Remember what my bestie said? Like my spouse for example, did I ever tell you about the time he did this at the dinner table and I created a whole chapter around it in my PhD thesis? Yeah. That One. With the chicken wings."

This is my problem with academia moving into trade publishing. They dumb it down to the point of, well, the reading level of much of America these days, but those people don't generally read self-help theology books. So why not write like periods and capital letters are signs of what's happening on the page? And your audience has a 10th-grade reading level.

I also wonder if it's social media. But unless this is considered social media, I don't know much about.

Even the drop-dead idiots when they are not drunk or fantasizing write in complete sentences.

Well, except for Babbles, and he could if he wanted to. I'm sure he does on other sites, but he chooses to play the fool here.

rant out