The Templars In Town Chapter 4 Summary
Chapter 4: The Templars in Town. Ignatius Donnelly, heard of him? He for the third time now, has been mentioned. He truly has surpassed any expectations of being anything but an Idiot. After his Ragnarok book failed him, Donnelly decided to pursue his dream of proving that Sir Francis Bacon was the mastermind behind Shakespeare’s writing, not Shakespeare himself. Charles Pierce says it better than anyone, “It was a snob’s argument, and it ran counter to the populist principles that still animated Donnelly’s politics.” (Page 61). He continues to dig his own grave when it comes to his crazy theories and what he thinks in general. Charles Pierce moves on to discuss “movement conservatism”. At the time this book was written, America was moving
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He continually jumps from one subject to the next but this particular subject was the republicans denying global warming exits.
A senior Senator, James Inhofe who sat as the chairman on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said “Might be the second largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state”(67) Pierce writes that global warming is no hoax by adding “ What with all that pesky scientific data, all those pesky collapsing ice shelves, all those pesky tropical diseases, and all that other troublesome reality” The sarcasm is evident but he is correct in his point. There is plenty of data to make his statement by the senator look ridiculous. Pierce goes on to discuss the Templars from Jerusalem. The conspiracies surrounding them are about as mysterious as to who wrote the Shakespeare tales. Of course, this does not relate to America and its idiocy but I figure since the chapter is called “The Templars in Town” I should include them.
Chapter 5: Radio Nowhere. Charles Pierce digs deep into the world of talk-radio on politics. The radio hosts he spoke of were all different in the way they think about or interpret issues occurring in politics. The first host that Charles spoke about is
He continually jumps from one subject to the next but this particular subject was the republicans denying global warming exits.
A senior Senator, James Inhofe who sat as the chairman on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said “Might be the second largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state”(67) Pierce writes that global warming is no hoax by adding “ What with all that pesky scientific data, all those pesky collapsing ice shelves, all those pesky tropical diseases, and all that other troublesome reality” The sarcasm is evident but he is correct in his point. There is plenty of data to make his statement by the senator look ridiculous. Pierce goes on to discuss the Templars from Jerusalem. The conspiracies surrounding them are about as mysterious as to who wrote the Shakespeare tales. Of course, this does not relate to America and its idiocy but I figure since the chapter is called “The Templars in Town” I should include them.
Chapter 5: Radio Nowhere. Charles Pierce digs deep into the world of talk-radio on politics. The radio hosts he spoke of were all different in the way they think about or interpret issues occurring in politics. The first host that Charles spoke about is