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What Michael Bellesiles has been up to lately

I came across this reminder of one of the Left's patented Who-Cares-About-the-Facts-It-Would-Be-So-Nice-If-This-Were-True episodes. Mr. Bellesiles is still an adjunct at Central Connecticut State University--note to the kids: stay away from there, or at least don't major in history there--and he also tends bar. 

While he enjoys making drinks, perhaps the best part for Michael is the people he meets.

"I meet amazing people and make them-temporarily at least-a little bit happier," he says.

Some people find their calling a bit too late. 

Karl Marx: "Stinky, Broke and Mad"

To paraphase the late, great Dean Vernon Wormer, that's no way to go through life, son.

Even the great ones make mistakes

Isaac Newton and South Sea stock: it didn't end well. 

"Monday, Laundry Day, New York City"

15 pictures from the 1930s. 

Feel a little better about 2013 now?

 

"Immigrant Tale"

JT's great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Timberlake, arrives in 1883 at Ellis Island. A reminder--if one is needed--of how astonishingly different from then the world is today. 

"Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition"

Sounds like an very interesting book, one I should read.

But it would be way too discouraging. 

"Heaven help us all and may the lord preserve us from these fatheads, narcissists and nincompoops"

Well put. The conclusion of a fine smackdown by Alex Massie: "The Iraq War's Real Victims? Laurie Penny and the Narcissistic Left".

"What Happened at Haymarket?"

Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and now, apparently, Haymarket. The Progressives are losing so much history so fast they'll have to make up some more. 

"The Crazy Keyboards of Yesteryear"

A look at some of the history of the "sewing machine of thought".

Laugh along with the 2007 Fed staff

Stop, you're killing me! "Fed Chief Economist In 2007: The Economy Won't Go Into Recession And No I Am Not On Drugs".