berlin wall

Hard to believe it's been a quarter century. 1989 had already been quite a year, and this was the cherry on top.

(to my eternal shame, I missed the opportunity to say anything about this yesterday, when the actual anniversary was) 18 years ago (counting from yesterday), a political event with far-reaching consequences took place. I was twelve years old at the time. This was the first "world affairs"...

I happened to be reading the Wikipedia article on the Berlin wall, and I came across this bit. Considering the real Peter Fechter died while no one did anything, this reenactment leaves me feeling somewhat queasy, which probably means it's a good idea. Non-Wiki source, for Wiki-haters.

There’s one area, besides cryptozoology that I don’t see getting much text time in the Forum, and that’s Revisionist History (well, besides Young Earth Creationism). Since that’s a topic near and dear to my heart, I wanted to toss out a few of the ones that really bother me. Historical...