tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post8928210149470005509..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Stunde Null: The Beginning of HistoryYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-38876804990664375232008-02-18T01:33:00.000+02:002008-02-18T01:33:00.000+02:00What historians refer to as "presentism" is a temp...What historians refer to as "presentism" is a temptation for them but a disease of politics. Cole is not a historian, but a political figure, now verging on cult status for his "regulars." Thus, his perpetual search for a "useful past."<BR/><BR/>And he will find such a past, always, for as it was said in graduate school, "Torture the evidence and it will confess."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-79452391160800312012008-02-18T00:48:00.000+02:002008-02-18T00:48:00.000+02:00There was a rather funny Dry Bones cartoon along t...There was a rather funny Dry Bones cartoon along these lines. I wish I had time to find the link to it. One of the characters said something about how some politico had mentioned "giving back Jerusalem," and the other character said something like, "Does that mean the way Jerusalem was returned to us nearly two thousand years after the Romans took it in A.D. 70?" And the first guy says, "No, I don't think that was what he meant."Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.com