Dowsing. White man seek with forked stick.
what does Billy Bob THINK about all that?
So snapple, you've had a few days with your book. Can you do us a favor and list some highlights or bullet points of the revelations that J. Trimbach promised. What is he saying about major historical figures which either wasn't covered or is contradicted by other works?
Is this psychic pets book on the City Lights list? It would seem to fit right in with:
"'Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma.' In Ploughing the Clouds, Peter Lamborn Wilson suggests that the ancient Celts of Ireland may have possessed a "Soma" ceremony similar to one described in the Rig Veda, one of the oldest scriptures in the world."
And then City Lights gives us "Secret Language", which is "about the indestructible spirit that compels people to search out meaning and to give it a shape, even when their lives seem reduced to a tedious or desperate struggle for survival. In libraries and parking lots, memories and dreams, it shows people tunneling through the hard surface of daily reality to find unexpected layers of mystery and possibility."
City Lights was founded by a guy to publish his own poems. Presumably because no one else would. And Ben thinks this business model is somehow not a vanity press?
Now City Lights publishes crackpots such a Churchill and the above. When informed that Churchill's latest is rife with copyright violations and plagiarism, City Lights said "so what" and did nothing. There appears to be no editorial screening, much less peer review. As long as your book fits in the crackpot New Age lefty stereotype, City Lights will put you in print.
Who does the book say killed Aquash... wasn't this the teaser he used?
The Psychic Bible was published by Sterling Press ("New York/London"), clearly not a vanity press. Apparently the care and feeding of your aura is taken more seriously by real publishers than sonorous lies about genocide. Seems about right to me.
The term here is "self-published." What does it matter how Trimbach got his book printed? It either stands or falls on its own merits. Dismissing it based on whether he got a publishing house interested is a dodge.
Hilda, you cheapskate. Your smug tone can't cover the sad reality that you are groveling for a book synopsis filtered through someone else's interpretation. Why can't you find five bucks if you're so curious? Check under the sofa cushions. Sell some blood.
There is some distinction between "self-published" and "vanity press". Self-published books such as Trimbach's are unabashed. One look at his "publisher's" web page and it is obvious what kind of service they provide.
It is a mistake to define "vanity press" as any press that makes the author pay. Subventions are common in academic publishing. They are the norm in some disciplines, and are nothing to be ashamed of. Thus subventions alone cannot define a "vanity press".
A "vanity press" has as least several of the following characteristics. It is a press that exists for the vanity of either the publisher or author or both. It sells few copies, often more to the author than anyone else. It may even require the author to purchase a minimum number, although that is less common today with the advent of on demand printing. It is a press that requires the author to provide his own typeset pages. It is a press that offers no peer review or editorial assistance (unless you pay extra). A press that services the "self-published" business is a subset of vanity presses.
Churchill has published with a number of vanity presses, including Common Courage, AK Press, South End Press, and City Lights. While these presses might not accept every manuscript they receive, they will publish all sorts of total nonsense as long as it passes the political tests. What makes these presses "vanity presses" is primarily their lack of peer review or editorial assistance, their total unconcern with the quality of research they publish. These are presses that publish works that university presses would never touch. And anyone who looks at the UP lists knows that you can publish almost anything with at least one of them. An academic author who publishes book after book and never once managed to crack the UPs is an author who does not have what it takes to make it in the academy at even the minimal level of quality.
Trimbach is an old man and not an academic. There is no need for him to go to a UP, and they wouldn't publish him anyway. His work is too derivative for the UPs, and certainly not politically correct enough for the vanity presses that Churchill frequents. Trimbach just wants to get his story out, and self-publishing is the way he chose. He has nothing to be ashamed of here. Not being an academic, his work rises or falls on its own merit. Churchill, on the other hand, spent all those years in academia and never once got one of his books into a UP.
Benjie complains that I don't know the history of City Lights. Ben should learn that City Lights was founded by a third rate poet to publish his own poems. That's both "self-publishing" and "vanity press".
I've been to City Lights. It's not even a good bookstore. The shelf content reflects the press's list. Extreme lefty agitprop, New Age nonsense, and crappy Beat poetry.
Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on a used envelope and it wasn't peer-reviewed, but today it's in the history books.
Trimbach's book is like the Gettysburg Address. It's an important primary source for American History written by a HERO who was fighting the WAR on TERROR to protect the people's rights more than 30 years ago.
The cowardly Wardo is afraid to say anything against the Trimbachs' book.
He's hiding in his spider-hole. There hasn't been a word from him.
He's afraid to stand up to a real man. He prefers to intimidate students and women.
"He's afraid to stand up to a real man."
Will you cut it out, Snapple? That just sounds strange.
Just because he tries to intimidate women doesn't mean he can't get into fights with men. He can do both.
What evidence do you have of this thuggish prick running away from a fight?
Snapple, responding to your blog about the scourage of pine ridge... does that guy actually have any evidence specifically linking Russell Means with Aquash? It is actually nothing new to learn that he was both an AIm leader, and present on the reservation in late 1975. But testimony of a few people at the previous trial didn't suggest that Means was on the phone directing Looking Cloud to interrogate her as a suspected FBI informant. They more strongly pointed to a few other individuals such as that guy who recently died. Also, the concept that Russell Means is a complicated person with various phases of his life, kind of like you might describe the stages of Picasso, isn't totally new. It would be interesting to hear first hand observations taht guy made.
Back in the early 70s Churchill threw a rock at a cop and then ran away. Other than that, I don't know of him ever engaging in violence (except to the English language and his pregnant wife).
Mr. Sherman--
Ward Churchill stories I have read involve force are against women--like when he threw his wife Leah into a wall. I stick with that because Churchill wrote it himself.
He also chased a lady secretary at CU because she shut his door because of the smoke.
At the moment I can't remember any accounts of Churchill getting physical with someone his own size. Maybe you know more.
What I mainly meant was that Churchill doesn't defend his "scholarship" using his own name on the Internet.I would think that a real professor would be able to stand up for himself. I think some of his defenders are very probably Churchill using a different name. And gullible college kids.
Physically, Churchill needs his gang to feel secure. He has body guards. That makes me think that he is afraid of anyone his own size.
And he roughs up women. A real man doesn't do that. Just a bully.
Hilda--you asked me to tell you what Trimbach is saying about "major historical figures." Who would those "major historical figures" be?
People in AIM are delusional assholes and minor terrorists--not "major historical figures."
Trimbach reveals the charlatan Churchill to be a liar and an idiot, not a "major historical figure."
Yeah, OK Snapple.
Hilda: "Snapple, responding to your blog about the scourage of pine ridge"
Hilda, you recalcitrant cheapskate, if I may:
Scourage. What makes a King out of a slave? Scourage.
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Scourage.
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Scourage.
There is a lot in this book about Ka-Mook Banks. She testified at the murder trial. She seems to have taped some of the conspirators telling what happened to her friend Anna Mae.
She was very young when Anna Mae was killed.
It is a lot to absorb.
Get the book.
Apparently she won't get the book, Snapple. She wants it for free.
Boo.
Hoo.
Hoo.
Hi all,
I have a small request: Could we treat posters with respect, please? Snapple doesn't need me to defend her, it's true. Nevertheless, for a very long time I've thought she's been treated badly everywhere. If you think her style isn't great, so what? I'm boring. JWP doesn't always pay attention. JGM goes on bizarre trips. If she repeats herself, well we've certainly heard worse. If you think some of her theories are far fetched, just say so. She has her contributions to make and if you appreciate some of them, say so. Thanks.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program....
Snapple,
Ass-pats for keeping us informed about Trimbaugh's book. It's interesting!
"Bizarre trips"?
I think your poem is really right on the mark, Mr. Sherman
Snaps
but but what does billy bob think and what does this have to do with aura's?
Apostrophe, houser? Explain yourself.
thnx.
"Back in the early 70s Churchill threw a rock at a cop and then ran away."
By the way, what is your source for this? Did someone say this or observe this, NOJ?
oh, historical figures probably could be considered to be the top seven cited names in AIM from the early 70s period, such as Banks, Bellecourt, Means etc. at the Pine Ridge events. There are hundreds of reservations and nations, but the actions at Alcatraz Island and Pine Ridge clearly crystalized the ethnic/national pride movement which lead to reforms of the BIA schools, sterilization and adoptions, differential treatment by courts and law enforcement, and the psychological symptoms by tribal members of being embarrassed by their own language and culture in order to try to assimilate
"Back in the early 70s Churchill threw a rock at a cop and then ran away."
By the way, what is your source for this? Did someone say this or observe this, NOJ?"
I'd have to dig through my files to get the exact cite. It was either a news story or police report. This was back when Chutch was still in IL.
"asspats", Laurie? I'm familiar with "@sspats" (well, who isn't?)...
Is your odd word related to that in some way? Or was it just a typo?
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