tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post6552031205710997116..comments2024-03-29T03:31:54.220-06:00Comments on The Michael Bane Blog: A Really Bad Book!Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-63300713499181311612008-07-12T18:11:00.000-06:002008-07-12T18:11:00.000-06:00Or the TRUTH !!! the mushroomOr the TRUTH !!! the mushroomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-57534383307182738692008-07-10T14:16:00.000-06:002008-07-10T14:16:00.000-06:00Yep kept in the dark and fed manure.Yep kept in the dark and fed manure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-86745585118763801902008-07-10T01:36:00.000-06:002008-07-10T01:36:00.000-06:00Whet the HELL would anyone of Ms Keller's ilk know...Whet the HELL would anyone of Ms Keller's ilk know about glory amd honor anyway ? the mushroomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-67879199968259369452008-07-09T22:19:00.000-06:002008-07-09T22:19:00.000-06:00The best treatment I have read on the impact of th...The best treatment I have read on the impact of the machine gun is "Social History of the Machine Gun" by John Ellis (John Hopkins University Press, 1975), In addition to WW I, Ellis covers the oft-neglected role of the machine gun in the conquest and colonization of Africa. It's a great read and I highly recommend it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-59317390704061631912008-07-09T20:19:00.000-06:002008-07-09T20:19:00.000-06:00I don't think the Gatling gun "changed everything"...I don't think the Gatling gun "changed everything". It was an important step, but the Maxim gun beats it out for that title.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-71423486342047661032008-07-09T16:01:00.000-06:002008-07-09T16:01:00.000-06:00The Gatling gun killed honor in war? I doubt sold...The Gatling gun killed honor in war? I doubt soldiers in previous wars who took hits from a .71 caliber lead musket ball fired from a Brown Bess would agree the gaping hole that made to be any more glorious.<BR/><BR/>We also seemed to do a pretty effective job of turning places like Antietam and Gettysburg into slaughter houses with .58 caliber mini balls fired from 1861 Springfield rifle Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14648225987293475835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-78423533966841976172008-07-09T13:25:00.000-06:002008-07-09T13:25:00.000-06:00Bear in mind that Keller is the product of an Amer...Bear in mind that Keller is the product of an American higher education system that in the last 30 years prides itself on confusing facts and value judgments. While it is true facts have a grounding in particular biases, the degree to which Keller's generation of English majors with Ph.D.s take this issue amounts to propaganda that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. I make this assetion as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-63194320202166044042008-07-09T12:44:00.000-06:002008-07-09T12:44:00.000-06:00Larry;I don't believe that AT ALL, but EVERY REPOR...Larry;<BR/><BR/>I don't believe that AT ALL, but EVERY REPORTER I've ever met does — as does Keller. Probably should have explained that a little better. <BR/><BR/>When I was in the newsroom in the Back When, there was HUGE peer pressure to believe those very phrases...they were articles of faith for MSM journalists.<BR/><BR/>It's why the MSM are dying...<BR/><BR/>mbMichael Banehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-41552544495874948752008-07-09T12:12:00.000-06:002008-07-09T12:12:00.000-06:00But Michael--tell us how your really feel about th...But Michael--tell us how your really feel about the book!! dmdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-84164696936933337832008-07-09T11:46:00.000-06:002008-07-09T11:46:00.000-06:00"Honor is indeed dead and, by extension, there is ..."Honor is indeed dead and, by extension, there is nothing worth dying for. Soldiers of any war are simply victims, too uneducated or unintelligent to understand that for which they really fight."<BR/><BR/>MB - could you expand on these two lines from your review. I would say that it is unexpected from you. Are you attributing this to Keller and her cohorts? Have I misinterpreted?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com