One of the things I like to point out on here is examples of excellent writing, innovative thought, or just plain good ideas. Millard Follmore’s Bathtub manages to capture all 3 of those things.
Its a history blog, but as the title might suggest, its one that looks at history from a slightly different perspective.
“History is a study of what happened and why. Often, high school and college studies of history are ruined by rote memorization of a long list of dates with a couple of words describing an event. That is not history. Often, studies of history are ruined through unreliable sources.”
That’s the first paragraph of his first post on what the blog is about, and how he came up the name. Its definitely a funny read, but its also an insightful look at a historical fact that is anything but fact. His take on history is very refreshing.
He has a couple of other entries of note, IMO. Here, he takes those people gloating over the demise of Ken Lay to task, very nicely. And here, he discusses an article on all the dire predictions of doom at the hands of new technology from the music and video industries, going back as far as the player piano (”I foresee a marked deterioration in American music…and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue — or rather by vice — of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines…” -John Philip Sousa on the Player Piano (1906)). Finally, his most recent post is a lovely critique of the plagiarism charges against Ann Coulter.
Filed under: Elron Steele, Global Paradigms, History, View From The Edge, steeletech
