NewsBusted: 'Liberal Comedians Don't Make Fun of President Obama...'

Via Theo Spark:

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Cartoons."

Also at Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up..."

More at Jill Stanek's, "Stanek Sunday funnies 12-9-12."

  Cartoon Credit: William Warren.

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

More at Jill Stanek's, "Stanek Sunday funnies 12-2-12," and Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies."

Cartoon Credit: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Suckers’ Leap."

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

More at Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up..."

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

Also at Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Jill Stanek, "Stanek Sunday funnies 11-18-12."

CARTOON CREDIT: William Warren.

NewsBusted: California Tax Increase

Stupid Californians, and more. Via NewsBusters:

Sunday Cartoons

At Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies."

And at Jill Stanek's, "Stanek Sunday funnies: “Forward” edition."

CARTOON CREDIT: Net Right Daily.

NewsBusted: 'President Obama Re-Elected...'

Hey, laughter's the best medicine, via Theo Spark:

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

Also at Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up..."

More at Jill Stanek's, "Stanek Sunday funnies: “Benghazi Cover-Up” edition."

CARTOON CREDIT: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Drip Drip Drip."

NewsBusted: 'Voting for Obama is Like Losing Your Virginity...'

An inspired episode, via NewsBusters:

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

And see Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Also at Jill Stanek's, "Stanek Sunday funnies..."

CREDIT: Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Remember In November."

Acts of Terror

Via Legal Insurrection.

Sunday Cartoons

Via Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – One Heartbeat Away."

I don't see Wordsmith's "Sunday Funnies" up yet, but I'll update (from Flopping Aces).

But see Jill Stanek, "Stanek Sunday funnies: “Joe just being Joe” edition."

And Nate Beeler's cartoons are at Cagle.

More later...

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

Also at Reaganite Republican, "Reaganite's Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up..."

More at Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – A Chainsaw We Can Believe In."

CARTOON CREDIT: William Warren.

BONUS: At LAT, "Awakened in Venezuela capital by reveille, voters head for polls."

Tim's Light Reading (6/16/2011)

1. The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History

This is the title of a short (189 page) new book by Derrick P. Alridge. Here's a review by Jon N. Hale, assistant education professor at Muskingum University. The review is quite informative, and here is Hale's conclusion (bolds mine):

Alridge provides a very important analysis and delineation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ educational thought. This book is critical for foundations of education scholars who present the traditional dichotomous Du Bois-Washington relationship that is too often used to represent black education ideologies during the Jim Crow era. This book is also important for historians interested in continuing to explore the tenets and nature of the Long Civil Rights Movement, especially the centrality of education as a critical site of racial, cultural, and ideological contestation. Beyond these specific academic circles, Alridge is an articulate author who engages primary sources and the socio-political context of his subject in a way that is meaningful, accessible, and informative to all readers. The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois is a well-written and supported text that makes important contributions to the field of education and history.

2. When It's Good to be Decanonized and Desacralized

Marshall Berman argues, in Dissent, that the fall of communism was the best thing to happen to Marx and Engels. I agree. [Note: The essay is actually "the introduction to [a new] Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the Communist Manifesto published [this past] March."]

3. Science as Cultural Integrative Force in U.S. History

Check out David A. Hollinger's take on this: "The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States between the Two World Wars," Pacific Historical Review, 80 (May 2011), 211-30.

4. The Faulty Mind of An Historian

Ta-Nehisi Coates is reading Shelby Foote's trilogy on the Civil War. Having learned more, however, about Foote's philosophy of history regarding the Civil War, Coates (properly) faults Foote's "white romanticism." Here's the conclusion of Coates' post on the subject:

[Foote] gave twenty years of his life, and three volumes of important and significant words to the Civil War, but he he could never see himself in the slave. He could not get that the promise of free bread can not cope with the promise of free hands. Shelby Foote wrote The Civil War, but he never understood it. Understanding the Civil War was a luxury his whiteness could ill-afford.

5. FYI: TOC for the Forthcoming American Studies (50 3/4, June 2011)

- “One Nation Over Coals: Cold War Nationalism and the Barbecue” - Kristin Matthews
- “When Modernism Was Still Radical: The Design Laboratory and the Cultural Politics of Depression-Era America” - Shannan Clark
- “What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel” - Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
- “Howard Fast’s American Revolution” - Neil York
- "Black Presidents, Gay Marriages, and Hawaiian Sovereignty: Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Obama" - Judy Rohrer

From here.

6. A New Journal and Society

There is now an "International Society for the Study of Skepticism." Its first journal, appropriately titled International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, came out last month. Here is the society's "about us" page.

7. Deweyan Playground Rhymes

Here's a little Thursday humor for you.

Tim's Light Reading (6/16/2011)

1. The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History

This is the title of a short (189 page) new book by Derrick P. Alridge. Here's a review by Jon N. Hale, assistant education professor at Muskingum University. The review is quite informative, and here is Hale's conclusion (bolds mine):

Alridge provides a very important analysis and delineation of W.E.B. Du Bois’ educational thought. This book is critical for foundations of education scholars who present the traditional dichotomous Du Bois-Washington relationship that is too often used to represent black education ideologies during the Jim Crow era. This book is also important for historians interested in continuing to explore the tenets and nature of the Long Civil Rights Movement, especially the centrality of education as a critical site of racial, cultural, and ideological contestation. Beyond these specific academic circles, Alridge is an articulate author who engages primary sources and the socio-political context of his subject in a way that is meaningful, accessible, and informative to all readers. The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois is a well-written and supported text that makes important contributions to the field of education and history.

2. When It's Good to be Decanonized and Desacralized

Marshall Berman argues, in Dissent, that the fall of communism was the best thing to happen to Marx and Engels. I agree. [Note: The essay is actually "the introduction to [a new] Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the Communist Manifesto published [this past] March."]

3. Science as Cultural Integrative Force in U.S. History

Check out David A. Hollinger's take on this: "The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States between the Two World Wars," Pacific Historical Review, 80 (May 2011), 211-30.

4. The Faulty Mind of An Historian

Ta-Nehisi Coates is reading Shelby Foote's trilogy on the Civil War. Having learned more, however, about Foote's philosophy of history regarding the Civil War, Coates (properly) faults Foote's "white romanticism." Here's the conclusion of Coates' post on the subject:

[Foote] gave twenty years of his life, and three volumes of important and significant words to the Civil War, but he he could never see himself in the slave. He could not get that the promise of free bread can not cope with the promise of free hands. Shelby Foote wrote The Civil War, but he never understood it. Understanding the Civil War was a luxury his whiteness could ill-afford.

5. FYI: TOC for the Forthcoming American Studies (50 3/4, June 2011)

- “One Nation Over Coals: Cold War Nationalism and the Barbecue” - Kristin Matthews
- “When Modernism Was Still Radical: The Design Laboratory and the Cultural Politics of Depression-Era America” - Shannan Clark
- “What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel” - Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
- “Howard Fast’s American Revolution” - Neil York
- "Black Presidents, Gay Marriages, and Hawaiian Sovereignty: Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Obama" - Judy Rohrer

From here.

6. A New Journal and Society

There is now an "International Society for the Study of Skepticism." Its first journal, appropriately titled International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, came out last month. Here is the society's "about us" page.

7. Deweyan Playground Rhymes

Here's a little Thursday humor for you.

Sarah Palin Meets Thomas Jefferson: For Your Viewing Pleasure

Today I begin my offerings with a little (dark) U.S. (anti-) intellectual history humor:



My favorite line from the clip: "What's a Tea-ocracy?" - TL

[I stumbled on this courtesy of John Fea.]

Sarah Palin Meets Thomas Jefferson: For Your Viewing Pleasure

Today I begin my offerings with a little (dark) U.S. (anti-) intellectual history humor:



My favorite line from the clip: "What's a Tea-ocracy?" - TL

[I stumbled on this courtesy of John Fea.]

Drunk History

As this blog frequently demonstrates, the internet provides historians with a powerful new medium with which to explore the past and reach a broader audience. We in the profession, however, are not the only folks doing history online.

Among the more unusual of these new online explorations of the past is Drunk History.*

The methodology set up is pretty simple: comedians Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner get a fellow comedian friend of theirs rip-roaring drunk and ask him or her to recall a favorite event in American history. They then film surprisingly well-known performers in period costume acting out the drunkenly-narrated story.

One could note that the series plays in interesting ways with conventions in "reel history" and suggests much about Americans' relationship to our past. But I'll let others explore these things in comments if they insist.

Without further ado, here's Drunk History, Vol. 3: The Story of Oney Judge (as told by a drunk Jen Kirkman):



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* Yeah, I know....the series is actually a couple years old. But it's new to me (h/t The Sound of Young America)

Drunk History

As this blog frequently demonstrates, the internet provides historians with a powerful new medium with which to explore the past and reach a broader audience. We in the profession, however, are not the only folks doing history online.

Among the more unusual of these new online explorations of the past is Drunk History.*

The methodology set up is pretty simple: comedians Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner get a fellow comedian friend of theirs rip-roaring drunk and ask him or her to recall a favorite event in American history. They then film surprisingly well-known performers in period costume acting out the drunkenly-narrated story.

One could note that the series plays in interesting ways with conventions in "reel history" and suggests much about Americans' relationship to our past. But I'll let others explore these things in comments if they insist.

Without further ado, here's Drunk History, Vol. 3: The Story of Oney Judge (as told by a drunk Jen Kirkman):



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* Yeah, I know....the series is actually a couple years old. But it's new to me (h/t The Sound of Young America)