Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable History Breaching Space and Time.

Publication announcements! So, there’s a small clutch of articles heading out onto the newsstands in the coming months that you might want to pick up if you’re of an article-picking-up bent. First, in the new issue of The Freethinker, I’ve an article on how Reza Aslan’s new book more or less rips off the central thesis of an eighteenth century German writer and then gives him absolutely no credit for it.
Then, in December, in Skeptical Inquirer, I’ve got a piece looking at Dean Radin’s Supernormal and the dodgy statistics manipulation therein, so if you love your skepticism laced with guffawing references to shoddy math, it should be just your thing!
But, if you don’t live in Britain or can’t wait that long to see what I have to say about totally random things, why not come and visit me this weekend at APE? Geoff and I will be at our booth, chatting about history and pretty much anything that tickles your fancy, so do give us a visit, do!
– Count Dolby von Luckner

Part of every kid’s education in the United States is the “Compare and Contrast the Treatment of the Native Americans by the French, Spanish, and English colonists” essay in which Spain and England come off as right asses while the French are perfectly happy learning the native language, joining the local tribes, and trading the odd fur or two. That’s a tad on the idealized side, but true on the whole, so a tip of the chapeau is perhaps in order, except for, you know, the massive and largely frivolous murder of beavers…
We’re at APE this weekend! Come and visit us! We’ll have our convention-exclusive set of president-and-dinosaur postcards, some snazzy bookmarks that just came in, and will be debuting our brand new banner! The new book won’t quite be ready for it, unfortunately, but you can at least catch us TALKING about the new book, and really, that’s pretty much the same thing.
– Count Dolby von Luckner