Previous History.
If you recall, one has heard of Michael S. Adams
before.
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/35980.html
Of course even Nazis are entitled to the benefit of
the first amendment, but let us discard the idea
that Michael S. Adams is a particularly worthy
object for academic freedom. I refer specifically to his
attempt to organize a purge of the Kent State
historian Julio Cesar Pino, and his published
statements teaching and advocating torturing
Pino. I would not care to venture to what extent Adams
made himself liable to a civil suit for defamation. My
impression was that he was desperately trying to find a
target for persecution on one of those campuses where
all the professors were taking refuge in silence, and there
was no overt opposition to President Bush. Adams displayed a
reckless disregard for truth. Adams claims the benefit of the same
law that he himself publicly despises-- when it is applied
for the benefit of someone else.
Professors are expected to be gentlemen, the same as army
officers. For example, I can send an unpublished
manuscript to David Beito without worrying that he
might take it and publish it under his own name, that
is, I can assume that Beito is a gentleman. I
don't think I could make such an assumption about Michael S.
Adams. A man who displays lack of integrity in one way will
display in in other ways. As Lord Monbodo
famously said of Boswell, Michael S. Adams is "... a
madman who has not the good fortune
to be a gentleman."
My comments on:
Ralph E. Luker
D'Ho, Junior
(My Comment:)
(03/02/2007 10:57 AM)
Let's Look at the Global War Blogger's Prose
Style.
Odd point: I looked at the Global War site, and what I
noticed was that each item consisted of a wire service
article, not properly footnoted, instead of giving a "money
quote" and a link, the way all of us professional scholars are
reflexively trained to do. The Global War blogger actually
writes nothing more of his own than a snarky title. That is
consistent with someone whose English is very
limited. My impression is that the anonymous blogger is
striving to give the impression of being a lot more literate
than he actually is. For example, it reminds me of the Mainland
Chinese blogger "Tektra" on the American Machinist blogsite.
"Tektra" does things like posting girlie pin-ups, in an attempt
to overcome the language barrier. That is very much
the impression I gain of the Global War blogger. Even our HNN
trolls are a lot more articulate than that!
I think that if someone like Professor Pino were to run a blog,
he would like the sound of his own voice enough to express
himself at somewhat greater length.
"'... the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The
dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious
incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes." (Alexander
Conan-Doyle, "Silver Blaze," in _Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes_)