On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Paul Echeverri wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:47:47 -0800 (PST), David Silberstein > <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Julie Alipaz wrote: > > > >> your very first problem is that you are reading something written by > >> Jared Diamond. keep the salt shaker handy. > > > > Unpack? > > Diamond's not Bellesiles, but he's in the right time zone. For those not keeping score, Bellesiles is a discredited historian of gun issues in early America - sort of the left-wing version of John Lott. This is the first I'd heard of non-ideological disagreements with Diamond - is there something peer-reviewed I could check out? ps - "Echeverri" has a cool linguistic story, right? - maybe Basque?