Birthday Week And The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea

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— Wombat-socho


This week all three of us that run this here blog celebrate our birthdays, and in fact today’s my 55th birthday. As Mickey Mantle once said, “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.” All that aside, since I can’t afford to buy everyone a beer in celebration, I did the next best thing and knocked the price of my book, The Last Falangist, down to 99 cents for the weekend, including Columbus Day, about which more momentarily. I would have given it away for free today, but apparently it costs little enough already that Amazon won’t let me do that.


On a related topic, the deranged Anglo racists of Seattle have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This insults not only Italian-Americans, who have long claimed the Admiral of the Ocean Sea as a hero on account of his Genoese origins, but Latinos such as myself who realize that without him, everybody south of the Rio Grande would be speaking Portuguese, or even worse, Gaelic. Lies about Christopher Columbus abound, and since the best way to fight lies is with truth, I summon to the field of battle the eminent naval historian and retired admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Admiral of the Ocean Sea is an honest look at the life and career of the great mariner who opened America to European colonization. A shorter version (the Reader’s Digest edition, if you will) is his Christopher Columbus, Mariner. Finally, if you want to go right to the source, there is Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, translated and edited by Morison. Columbus may not have been a stainless hero (who is?) but he deserves better than the lies peddled by Howard Zinn and other revisionist scumballs.


The Last Falangist – 99 Cents Through Monday!

29 comments

  2. Back when Arizona first put MLK Day up to a public vote, one of the competing voter initiatives would have replaced Columbus Day with MLK Day.

    To my knowledge, Arizona is the only state to ever put MLK Day up to a public vote. Twice.

    And going by the raw numbers, it won both times.

  3. When will they insist that we no longer use the term ‘America’ because it’s in honor of my paisan Amerigo Vespucci, member of the Patriarchy? [-who used his member in PIV]

  6. Seattle didn’t even put this up for a vote; it was decided by the City Council with (apparently) little or no debate.

  16. Over the transom…

    History is hard. We’re going to get Obama (PBUH) to dictate an Executive Order (which is The Law, Stupid) declaring all those old, dead dudes from like, a hundred years ago, are gone, so from here on out, we’ll use newer dead dudes. Like Jeff Goldblum.

    Sincerely, the Left

  17. Followup over the transom…

    Jeff Goldblum died a hundred years ago? I’ll ask my Mom. She’s probably a hundred.

    the Left’s kid brother

  19. I had thought nothing could be less coherent than some of Anamika’s drug-soaked contributions, but you, sir, have not only broken that barrier but reduced it to piles of quivering bosons.

  20. He is a great, great writer. His HISTORY OF US NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II makes even the most boring shit about the Navy’s part in World War II interesting. For fifteen volumes.

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