Historians invent time machine

Apparently 98% of historians know something we don’t and have declared President Bush’s presidency a failure. The thrust of their assessment hinges on Iraq. Now, if I didn’t know better, I’d say that the conflict in Iraq is not finished yet, so it can’t possible be history, can it? Did they suddenly develop the ability to see into the future?

Historians, as historians, can only account for what has already happened. The story of Iraq has not even finished being written. When they talk about the merits of the future they cease acting as historians and their opinions have no more weight than anybody else’s. It will be a long time before we will be able to look back on the Bush presidency and fully account for all it has affected.

Artiste defends the indefensible

It looks like the case on that wonderful girl’s art isn’t closed after all. The “work” she did over a mound of dead children is an issue again.

Yale said it was a hoax. But as a university seeking to preserve its reputation they have an incentive to, shall we say, be reticent with the truth. After all, if some corporation had been caught in a scandal, would we simply take them at their word that nothing is wrong, and say “that’s that”?

The student who “artificially inseminated” (what?) herself sticks by the story. All she concedes is that there’s no way of knowing how many babies she killed, only that she impregnated herself incessantly over a nine month period and took abortive drugs at the end of each cycle. She even saved physical evidence and video taped herself.

How artistic.