perfidy

[cue finger-wagging] Speaking of revising stories, here's a story about why I'm not a professional card-carrying historian. 

[cue bug-eyed ranting]According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, (via Volokh) the AHA will no longer investigate claims of plagiarism or other professional misconduct by historians, citing an inability to bring sanctions against offenders. 

Thanks, guys! You're already a bunch of bedwetting little pansies, and now you've admitted it. Well, acceptance is the first step toward healing. Why not just disband, now that you've proven you have no power to police the mores of the profession? Ohhhhh right the American Historical Review. Because that's such an excellent publication. Y' know? I'm an historian. That's my training, and part of how I identify myself. It's not a very encouraging sign when I cannot stand to read through even a single issue of a leading journal in my chosen field. Well, it's still better than the Journal of American History. Every quarter that bumwipe features stuff like "The New England Bean Farming Community, 1790-1820: Capitalist Hell or Proto-Marxist Paradise?" or "Roundtable: Interrogating The American Family-- Four Centuries Of Unrelenting Patriarchy" or "Rethinking Marx: How the Revolution Can Still Happen If We Wish Really Hard"

(I'm making these up - barely.)