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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
I can't hold back any more! Here is the cover for my next graphic novel, Legends of Zita the Spacegirl:
Here's the full wraparound (which you can click to enlarge):
I'm so excited to share this book with you guys! Unfortunately, it won't be released until September 4th which seems like an eternity to me, but I noticed that you can already pre order it on Amazon. I wish I could just post the whole thing online but I'd get in huge trouble. We'll just have to wait it out together.
Oh, and special thanks to the talented Colleen AF Venable for the cover design. The illustration is mine, the text layout, etc is her. Colleen writes comics about mystery solving rodents.
32 comments:
- NOD said...
Sweet! That is a long time to wait! My boys and I love the first one - Patrick (3) loves flipping through it and explaining what is happening. They love the Flight book too :)
- January 10, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
It's such a long time, I know! It's killing me to have this all finished and not have people reading it yet. But hopefully it will be worth the wait for Patrick.
- January 10, 2012 at 7:44 AM
- email@example.com said...
Well, I've already bought my copy, now I have to wait till September.
I do have a question, the web comic site had a lot more adventures of Zita. Any plans of reposting those other adventures?
- January 10, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Gaelen Mibeck said...
my siblings are jumping for joy, and unleashing a torrent of questions such as "is that another Zita?", and "why is that pirate lady holding a fireball?" I guess we'll have to wait and find out. :)
Will this be the end, or is it going to be a trilogy?
- January 10, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Hey kedamono, thanks for being an early bird. I'm sad to say that a few of the early Zita adventures are currently missing since I dropped the external drive they were stored on. I sometimes think about trying to retrieve them, but I think the art is a little ...rough.
But i do have hopes of posting some NEW short adventures online over the coming months.
- January 10, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Oh, and Gaelen, Zita's story will be a trilogy.
I want to tell you all about the new characters! But you'll have to wait and see...
- January 10, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Z-Kids said...
Yea! The kids and I are so excited!
- January 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Shaylynn said...
It's awesome!
- January 10, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Arkonbey said...
Or, instead of Amazon, you could pre-order it from your local independent bookstore!
Though, that is speaking as a guy who works for an independent bookstore and has Zita sitting face-out in the Staff Picks section and can hardly wait to put Legends next to it (well, after I get one for our house, of course).
- January 10, 2012 at 3:05 PM
- Ben Hatke said...
YOU ARE RIGHT! Shame on me for not suggesting that. Maybe someday I'll make it out to your independent bookstore (is it close?).
- January 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM
- Arkonbey said...
It'd be an amazing thing if you could make it out but, it's not so close unfortunately. "make it up" would make more sense than "make it out".
It's closer to Montreal than NYC, up in Essex, Vermont.
- January 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- The Diatribest said...
Putting aside my shiny dimes for this one! It looks incredible!
- January 10, 2012 at 6:26 PM
mi piacciono molto i disegni delle bambine che dormono!
Complimenti per Zita!
- January 11, 2012 at 3:48 AM
- Tim said...
Great news! Love the robot Zita. I can't wait. And how many guesses do we get on who the inspiration was for the fire-wielding gypsy lass? :]
- January 11, 2012 at 8:16 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Hee hee! I admit there are certain influences in Madrigal's design...
- January 11, 2012 at 8:45 AM
- Torey said...
Exciting! Congrats!!
- January 18, 2012 at 6:50 AM
- The Diatribest said...
- January 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Ha! Thanks Caroline.
- January 25, 2012 at 1:33 PM
- Ben said...
Congrats, Ben. The delay is killing Henry and me, though. Here's a plug at Henry's blog, which I set up so that he can get into self-publishing his work: http://doingdang.blogspot.com/2012/01/zita-space-girl-volume-2-publication.html
- January 27, 2012 at 9:56 AM
- Ben said...
Ben, about the external drive mentioned in your answer to kedamono, let me know if you want me to fix it or at least extract the files (I do this for a living). Here we are just as keen to see those stories. I'll do it for free if it means the possibility that you can post some of those stories! Just contact me via comment at uzima.blogspot.com (I'll moderate it out so it won't get published. I prefer this method over exposing my email address to the web [I realise you'll mod out this one too, but just to be on the safe side])
- January 27, 2012 at 10:09 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Oh Awesome! Tell henry thanks for posting about Legends of Zita!
- January 31, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- Katy Manck, MLS said...
Congrats on winning Cybils Award from book bloggers for Zita the Spacegirl! http://www.cybils.com/2012/02/the-2011-cybils-awards.html
Can't wait for Legends of Zita!
- February 14, 2012 at 6:16 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Oh my gosh! I've been following the Cybils, but never actually thought Zita would win! I AM SO EXCITED!
- February 14, 2012 at 6:43 AM
- Tim Canny said...
Congratulations on the Cybil! It is well deserved.
- February 14, 2012 at 8:26 AM
- pro wrestling photog said...
Great to hear that there is another Zita book on the way. My daughter Teagan has read and reread the first one.
- March 17, 2012 at 12:27 PM
- Ben Hatke said...
On the way! And you can tell Teagan that not only will there be a second book, but I'm working on the third one right now.
I plan on having less of a wait between books 2 and 3.
- March 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM
- Hancock Family Art said...
Sooo excited! Just read the first Zita the Spacegirl today and was getting ready to pin the cover on Pinterest and discovered your blog! Excited to discover you! ;)
- May 20, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- Ben Hatke said...
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- May 23, 2012 at 2:27 AM
- Ben Hatke said...
Awesome! Thanks so much for reading and for telling people about the book. Hopefully I'll have many more books and stories to come...
- May 23, 2012 at 2:27 AM
I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT! Just a little while yet....
- July 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- Zita Nolee said...
wow this is amazing i mean i just find out about the comic and it's so weird that we share the same name it is just strange :)
- November 7, 2012 at 1:25 PM
- Ben Hatke said...
Hey another Zita! There are more of you than you might think...
I'm thinking of starting a "League of Zitas" -end goal, of course, is world domination.
- November 8, 2012 at 9:05 AM


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NATIONWIDE Netball Club are certainly striking while the iron's hot.
Netball is the country's fastest-growing sport. Sport England recently agreed to pump £25.3million into the game, a 35 per cent increase on the netball's previous allocation.
Sky Sports regularly show the English Netball Superleague and international matches.
This year the sport will rise further into the public view when the netball competition kicks off at the Commmonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It's timely then that Swindon & District League club Nationwide decided to merge with other local club Park before the start of the winter season.
The two clubs combined to produce five teams, with two of those in the top division.
Kathryn Sell, captain of the club's A side, believes the increased exposure has definetly been a boost to her sport and the club.
"Netball being on a TV more has been a big factor in the increased interest," said Sell. "We've had quite a lot of people joining who left the sport at 16 and wanted to get playing again, either into clubs or through local Back To Netball groups."
As the name suggests Nationwide started as a works team for the locally-based building society.
Though over time and through relaxed joining rules the club has grown out of the office and into an increasingly strong force.
This season Sell's team have been the form side in Division One.
In winning 12 of their 13 games they have racked up more than 730 goals, bettering the next highest scorers by over 50 and racking up a goal difference of an eye-watering 291.
Sell wouldn't stretch to saying that her side were favourites, settling for a more modest appraisal.
"I think we're definite contenders, we've been able to strengthen the squad, we had had a girl coming back from America and one who came from Park in defence."
Sell was also reluctant to single out any indivual for this season's improved form, prefering to praise her team as a whole.
"Most of the A team has been together for three seasons now, this season there's been a real belief we can do well and the results have motivated us to keep going for it."
The promotion of Abbey Meads into the regional league has opened up District Division 1 and given club's like Nationwide a hope winning it.
Unlike some of the bigger clubs in the District League, Nationwide do not currently have any sort of youth setup.
Whilst there are no immediate plans to get one started up, the club do have a few qualified level one and two coaches on their books and it is something they could be open to in the future.
They currently have a number of young players as young as 16 and are open to any players who are over the league's minimum age of coming along to training to try out.
With the current buoyant climate in the sport you wouldn't bet against Nationwide growing as a club as the year progresses.


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Few nearby year-round ski resorts have developed like Jiminy Peak in Hancock, Mass. The secret to Jiminy's phenomenal growth can be credited to many factors, however, the resorts dedicated workforce and management staff are truly exceptional at all levels.
Q Who are you?
A Paul Maloney, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Jiminy Peak in Hancock, Mass.
Q How long have you been here?
A This will be my 40th season.
Q You've seen a lot of things come and go at Jiminy. What changes had a major impact?
A One of the biggest changes that occurred since I've been here obviously is snowboarding. Before that it was all skiing. Another is the overall mountain development. Meaning the hotel, condos, base lodge, and expanded snowmaking. Our summer attractions here and elsewhere continue to draw visitors. People like our mountain coaster, alpine slide, aerial challenge course, Z-line, and mountain biking. We also catered to many weddings in summer.
Q My recollection from the early days here at Jiminy, is that you fostered some fine ski racing programs and had substantial ski clubs following. Are you still personally involved with the race teams?
A You're right. Years ago I used to set all the courses and all that went with racing. But now the race teams just check in with me and we discuss such things as course grooming and details to get the hill ready for racing. Ski clubs still come. At last count there were about 4000 members among them. And, of course, we have a strong after school ski programs all winter. The evening adult groups have dwindled in recent years. Mainly I feel it's become harder to get the senior groups out at night. Overall, however, we still see growth in these ski/ride programs.
Q I know that Jiminy's President, Brian Fairbank spends most of his time here, however, isn't he also in charge of two other resorts?
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Category: British top baby names 2010
In this week's edition of Appellation Mountain's Abby Sandel's Baby Name News feature, we find intriguing examples from the worlds of sports, show biz celebrity and British popularity lists.
Berries, here's my constant dilemma: do I ask an expecting cousin/colleague/acquaintance if they've thought about baby names? Let's face it, I'm going to ask eventually. Do I throw it out in the same breath as I offer my congratulations? Or do I try to play it cool, waiting for a cautious "we were thinking about Isabella …"
More often than not, I ask.
A friend recently indulged me, and rattled off their short list for a late November baby. It was the kind of list that you would expect from a pair of thoughtful, stylish first-time parents: Josephine and Penelope and Eleanor and so on.
Oh, and Brooklyn.
I raised an eyebrow.
But then I heard the story: their beloved niece, the nicely-named Sophie, had suggested it on a long car trip, reading it off an exit sign on the Long Island Expressway, offering it up as if no one had ever been named Brooklyn before. Brooklyn wasn't their style – but the moment was memorable, enough to add the name to their list.
It was a great reminder that inspiration comes from unlikely places. Somehow I doubt my friends will end up with a baby Brooklyn, but the story almost makes me wish they would.
Speaking of unusual inspiration, here are nine names that caught my eye this week.
Alfie – Oliver and Olivia are the top names in the UK for the second year in a row, but here's the choice that fascinates me: Alfie. The nickname has rocketed into the Top Ten in recent years, reaching #4. Most popular British choices aren't very different from American favorites, and American parents often borrow from the UK, like Jack and Lily. But Alfie is nowhere in the US and seems an unlikely import. Or is he? I once might have said the same thing about Oliver, and he's climbing rapidly in the US.
Arthur – Selma Blair's new baby boy is Arthur Saint. Arthur is as regal as William and as cool as Archer, too. There have been hints that Arthur was on the comeback trail – Courtney Cox's Cougar Town character joking about adopting a baby boy to call Arthur, all those rumors that Natalie & Benjamin had chosen it for their little guy. Let's say that Arthur is officially back.


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Second placed Lye are one point behind leaders Shawbury United after drawing 0-0 last Saturday when away to third placed Sporting Khalsa.
Thomas feels his side should have won the game and said they will be looking to bounce back when they take on Willenhall Town at home this Saturday (3pm ko).
He said: "We played well and had three chances cleared off the line. Even though I think we should have won, it is clear that there will be many more twists and turns along the way.
"Shawbury are now top and will be looking behind them. They are the team with that burden on their shoulders now, let's see how they cope.
"We have been in this position last season and that experience will only benefit us this time around.
"We are keen to bounce straight back and will be fired up for Saturday's game against Willenhall," he added.
Thomas has also said that his new-look strike force is showing signs of becoming a dangerous unit.
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I've watched to Rockets several times this year, it's obvious that Maurice Taylor is a much bigger part of that team than in the past. I see that as a big key tonight.
What I would do, If I was designing the Pacers' strategy tonight, would be to bait the Rockets into throwing the ball to Taylor, then let JO swat his shot. The reason I say this is because I consider Taylor one of the worst passers in the league. I'm not sure if he's a selfish player (I think he is), or just too dumb to pass when it is the obvious play to make, but I've noticed that once the ball goes to him, there's about a 90% chance that he's going to shoot it.
I don't think Carlisle will want to double-team him, but it will be interesting to see how they decide to defend him. He's usually in the game when Yao is out, so our 5 could guard him, but they'll need to be careful because he's pretty good at getting to the basket and getting fouled.


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Study of Nighttime Dosing of Sublingual Tizanidine (12 mg) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Patients With Significant Spasticity
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|Muscle Spasticity
|Drug: Tizanidine (sublingual or oral)
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Double-Blind, Randomized, Crossover Study to Evaluate the Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Oral Tizanidine HCl (12 mg) Versus Novel Sublingual Tizanidine HCl (12 mg) for the Treatment of Spasticity in MS Patients
- Clinical efficacy - improvement in next-day spasticity (Ashworth scores)
- Safety - no increase in next-day somnolence (measured objectively using PVT psychomotor vigilance task monitoring) and subjectively, using Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) questionnaires
- Secondary clinical efficacy - objective measure of sleep (actigraphy measures)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2007
Sublingual tizanidine, a novel test formulation of the known effective antispasticity agent, has been shown to have a unique pharmacokinetic profile [(i.e., nearly twice the bioavailability/AUC), but with little or no increase in peak plasma levels (Cmax) as compared to oral tizanidine (Zanaflex)]. When administered nightly to 20 MS patients, at a dose of 8 mg, it was shown to improve next-day spasticity (statistically significant improvement in Ashworth scores) about 12 hours post-dosing), improvement in nighttime (first quartile) sleep efficiency (as demonstrated by actigraphic measurement), and no increase in daytime somnolence.
Current study is being undertaken to evaluate if increased dosing (12 mg once nightly) of sublingual tizanidine (vs. oral) will show a concomitant increase in clinical effect, i.e., longer improvement, with next-day spasticity score improvement both in AM (as previously) as well as at PM (late afternoon) evaluation, with no increase in daytime somnolence.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female patients between the ages of 20-65
- Definitive diagnosis of MS, with Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) less than 6.5 at screening
- Has significant spasticity (total Ashworth => 6) at screening
- Can maintain sleep regimens of at least 5 hours nightly for study duration
May be allowed to take other anti-spasticity medication during study (including oral baclofen) as per individual dosing regimen, with the following qualifications:
- No dose after 6pm on any study day
- No dose at all on a clinic evaluation day (Visits 3, 4, 5)
- Females must agree to use a medically accepted form of birth control, be surgically sterile, or be two years post-menopausal. Oral contraception is contraindicated with tizanidine use.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute MS exacerbation requiring treatment with steroids within 30 days of screening
- Initiation of discontinuation of interferon beta within 30 days of screening
- Use of baclofen pump
- Use of CYP1A2 inhibitors during study
- Taking medications that would potentially interfere with the actions of the study medication or outcome variables, including: sedatives, stimulants, anti-hypertensives, tricyclic antidepressants, etc.
- Previous diagnosis of a sleep disorder, distinct from MS, such as obstructive sleep apnea or narcolepsy
- Score >18 on Beck Depression Inventory at screening
- Changes in chronic oral medications within 2 weeks of baseline and during study
- Significant abnormalities in screening lab parameters (ex: ALT, AST, bilirubin > 2 x upper limit of normal [ULN]; creatinine > 2 mg/dl; white blood cell [WBC] < 2,300; platelets < 80,000).
- Previous history of dementia, unstable psychiatric disease, or current signs and symptoms of significant medical disorders such as severe, progressive, or uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematological, endocrine, pulmonary, cardiac, neurological, or cerebral disease
- History of allergy to tizanidine or any inactive component (including lactose intolerance) of test or reference formulation
- History of substance abuse within the past 12 months
- Within 30 days of baseline, worked a rotating or nighttime shift
- Participation in another clinical trial within 30 days of baseline
- Patients who are uncooperative or unwilling to sign consent form
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00358293
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|Tel Aviv, Israel
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|Arnon Karni, MD
|Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
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Protocol C2/5/TZ-MS-05
|Study First Received:
|July 27, 2006
|Last Updated:
|January 20, 2009
Keywords provided by Teva GTC:
Multiple Sclerosis
Sublingual Tizanidine
Ashworth Scores
Spasticity in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Muscle Spasticity
Multiple Sclerosis
Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, CNS
Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Demyelinating Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Muscular Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Muscle Hypertonia
Neuromuscular Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Muscle Relaxants, Central
Neuromuscular Agents
Autonomic Agents
Adrenergic alpha-2 Receptor Agonists
Adrenergic alpha-Agonists
Adrenergic Agonists
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
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Detectives arrested David J. Morin, 31, of Dunnellon, April, 14, in connection with several commercial burglaries, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
The release said Morin was part of a group of people who broke into the Kwik King in Morriston at the beginning of March. Several thousand dollars worth of cigarettes and lottery tickets were stolen from the store. And thousands of dollars worth of damage to the store resulted from the break in. The store, along with a break in at Morris Junction BP Station, was broken into three times.
Manuel Alejandro Marmolejos found himself with more than car trouble on Saturday, April 21, when Levy Sheriff's Deputy Matthew King stopped to help him, according to a Levy Sheriff's Office press release,
When the deputy stopped to assist Marmolejos with a white Honda CRV on the side of the road in the Chiefland area he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. King asked Marmolejos if he had anything in the car that was illegal and Marmolejos said no.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
n April 12, Michael Allen, 22, Fanning Springs, burglary, petit theft, illegal use of credit cards. Bond $6,000.
n April 15, Susie Ann Bennett, 56, Chiefland, petit theft.
n April 11, Alethea Beyer, 37, Ft. Myers, disorderly intoxication, possession of controlled substance without a prescription. Bond $6,000,
n April 13, James B. Bunt, 48, Trenton, out of county warrant. Bond $5,000.
An early morning accident April 12 left a Summerfield man dead.
Jeremy Wahl, 28, the rider of a 2008 motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency workers responded to the accident at SW 12 Ave. and S. Main St., Williston around 6:30 a.m.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Angie Brewer, 69, of Williston was traveling east on SW 12 Ave. in her 2006 Chevy and was attempting to turn left onto S. Main St. and failed to see Wahl, who was traveling west.
No more Mr. Nice Guy, Scooby Snax, Mad Hatter, Cloud 9 or Kool Beanz are to be found in Chiefland.
The city Police Department went on a roundup on April 2 cleaning hundreds of packets, envelopes and containers of products labeled bath salts, incense, spice, K2 and synthetic cannabis from convenience stores shelves or requiring sellers to return the products to wholesalers.
A $500 reward is being offered by the Levy County Sheriff's Office for information that leads to an arrest in the theft of copper wire from irrigation pivots on farms in the county.
The sheriff's office has seen an increase in copper wire thefts with Lt. Shawn Hunt, commander of the Ag/Marine Unit, investigating five copper wire thefts from irrigation pivots in March. The thefts have occurred in the Williston and Chiefland areas and most likely are occurring at night time.
Levy County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Jonathan Racer, 38, of Chiefland, Sunday at about 11 a.m. after it was discovered he was in possession of two syringes loaded with anabolic steroids, according to an LCSO press release.
Racer, who also didn't have a valid driver's license, was pulled over for a traffic violation. Deputy Roger Bell noticed the syringes and a pill bottle sitting on the passenger-side seat, the release stated.
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Supreme Court has unanimously elected Ricky Polston – a man whose roots lie in the Panhandle town of Graceville – to become the state's 55th chief justice starting July 1.
Polston will become only the second chief justice from Jackson County and the first to come from west of the Apalachicola River since 1925.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Christopher Lee Holder, 29, of Bronson, Sunday after they discovered a rifle, pistol, 20.5 grams of marijuana and a small pipe in his vehicle during a traffic stop, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
Holder, a convicted felon, was pulled over because he was not properly displaying a tag on his vehicle, according to the press release.
A woman camper at Manatee Springs State Park who was screaming and cursing refused an order by a Levy County deputy to calm down and go to bed, so he took her to jail, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
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Bills come to terms with third-round pick [8:52 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'He will wear No. 69 with the Bills.'
Bills sign third draft pick [5:30 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'Four draft picks down, two to go.'
Bills tough guy Henry needs more respect [5:29 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'Henry has rushed for 1,438 yards and 1,356 yards in the past two seasons. He also has caught 71 passes for 467 yards and scored 25 TDs over that span. He reduced his fumbles from eight in 2002 to three last season. Yet when �experts� rate the NFL's running backs, Henry seldom cracks the top 10.'
Wanted: star RB [5:10 AM]
Miami Herald reports: 'The Dolphins also contacted a half-dozen other teams, including the Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings, an NFL source said.'
Anderson Accepts Contract [5:09 AM]
RNews.com reports: 'The 6-foot-3, 305 pound defensive tackle was a three year starter for Ohio State, helping the Buckeyes win a national championship in 2002.'
The Bills Get Anderson In Before Camp Starts [4:38 AM]
WGR-AM reports: 'Anderson had 11 career sacks at Ohio State. He started 36 of the 44 games he suited up for the Buckeyes. Anderson could become an important piece of the Bills puzzle should they not be able to keep Pat Williams who's an unrestricted free agent after this season.'
Bills agree to terms with defensive lineman Tim Anderson [4:32 AM]
AP reports: 'The Bills still have to hash out contracts with wide receiver Lee Evans of Wisconsin and quarterback J.P. Losman of Tulane. Evans was the team's first pick in the first round draft, Losman was the second selection in round one.'
AFC Signing Status of Draft Picks [10:11 PM]
Sports Radio 810 reports: TE Tim Euhus (Oregon State/No. 109 overall): Signing bonus: $321,500. Base salaries: $230,000 (2004); $305,000 (2005); $385,000 (2006). Total: three years, $1,241,500. Salary cap charge: $337,167.
Marriage, Workouts Highlight Kelsay�s Offseason, Prepares For Second Season in Buffalo [5:50 PM]
Nemaha County Herald reports: (scroll down to middle of page)
'Coming from supportive atmospheres in Auburn and the University of Nebraska, Kelsay notices similarities in the football fanaticism of the home fans in Buffalo. �Buffalo is a very supportive city. Lincoln just has Nebraska football. We have the Sabres (NHL) and a Triple A baseball team (Buffalo Bisons). But the city really thrives on Buffalo Bills football. It�s great to go out every Sunday and see all that red and blue,� Kelsay said.'
Van Pelt Adjusting to New Challenge [5:22 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: '"I'm just really excited to call a live game," Van Pelt said. "I've been doing a lot of practice games so far trying to get a feel for the process. It's been a lot of fun."'
Sam Wyche's silent count [4:21 PM]
The Sporting News reports: 'As for the other big comeback story in the quarterback scenario, Wyche isn't ready to give up on Bledsoe. "I looked at a lot of film on Drew and he has not hit the wall," Wyche says. "He's not done yet."'
President Fred Engh Speaks at Breakfast of Champions Seminar [4:17 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: 'Fred Engh, founder and president of the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS), spoke to nearly 200 youth football coaches and administrators on Saturday, July 17, at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The seminar was sponsored by the Western New York Youth Tackle Football Federation, which represents 185 football and cheerleading teams with 8,000 football players and 6,000 cheerleaders.'
Inside slant [12:52 PM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'The Bills think veteran linebacker Jason Gildon can help them but the contract they gave him is something less than convincing. His one-year deal valued at between $1 million and $1.25 million with incentives came with a signing bonus of no more than $500,000, making the Steelers' all-time sack leader a candidate to be cut with no significant salary cap impact if he fails to perform in training camp.'
Strategy and personnel [12:52 PM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'The Bills are close to signing DT Tim Anderson, their third-round pick out of Ohio State, leaving only two picks unsigned heading into training camp. Those picks, unfortunately, are first-rounders Lee Evans and J.P. Losman, and as GM Tom Donahoe says, "Signing first-round picks is never easy."'
Notes, quotes, anecdotes [12:51 PM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'WR Josh Reed doesn't want to relinquish his starting job, but he's wide open to the idea of returning to the slot where he had more success as a rookie. In 2002, he caught 37 passes for 509 yards and 2 TDs - a 13.8 average. Playing on the outside last season, he caught 58 balls but for just 588 yards - a 10.1 average. From the slot, catching short balls over the middle, Reed can use his run-after-the-catch abilities more effectively. "The coaches have done a great job so far," he said. "They're going to put us in the positions that we need to be to make this team better. I'm just going out there and doing what they ask of me."'
My Thoughts On...The Bills Getting Started [12:50 PM]
WOKR-TV reports: 'Change was needed, but that doesn�t make everything better. Gregg Williams made mistakes, but if you think dumping him is all good, you are mistaken. The defense has lost Williams and have lost Dick LeBeau. Jerry Gray is a very good football man. But the heat is on him to not miss a beat without his mentor.'
Bills' camp goes back to basics [8:53 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"It's not as grueling as it sounds," Mularkey said. "I know it hasn't been like that here in years past but I'd rather start at this level, and if we need to cut back, fine. Because you can't start here (a low number of sessions) and then say, "We don't have enough practices, we're not hitting hard enough.'"'
Get out of town! [8:52 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Children under the age of 14 can get autographs after each practice at the McDonald's Kids Autograph tent.'
Williams' retirement big boost for the Bills [5:22 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: 'The Bills won't shed any tears over Williams' departure. In five career games against Buffalo, he ran for 682 yards (136.4 yards per game) and averaged 4.8 yards per carry. His departure leaves the Bills with arguably two of the three best running backs in the AFC East (with New England's Corey Dillon). Needless to say, it would be a waste of Miami's time to talk trade for Travis Henry or Willis McGahee.'
Wire Could Become New Free Safety [5:00 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: '"Lawyer was a blessing to me because the experience he has in the NFL," Wire said. "He kind of took me under his wing. We're great friends off the field as well, which has meant a lot to me."'
Punt Return Competition Wide Open [5:00 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: 'The Bills averaged just six yards per punt return last season, 3.5 yards below the league average. In 2003, Antonio Brown started off the year as the main man, but by the mid-point in the season he was replaced by cornerback Nate Clements. Both men could be in the competition this year as well.'
Bills Team Report [4:59 AM]
The Sporting News reports: 'Expect new coach Mike Mularkey, a former NFL tight end, to make Campbell a bigger part of the offense this season.'
An irresistible force [11:27 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"I just liked the way he carried himself," said Odioso, who now works for the Fox Sports television network. "He had a good presence about him. I knew he was smart, and I had the impression he'd be good at getting people to work together and making everybody feel they were heard without getting sidetracked by listening to too many opinions."'
Bills' talent pool fails to make splash in fall previews [11:26 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Here's a position-by-position look at what's being said about the 2004 Bills."
Experts predict Bills to tie for last place in AFC East [5:20 AM]
Rochester D&C reports: '�It looks like Mularkey brings a clear-cut identity to the squad and his staff has experience at the most important coaching positions. The Bills will not abandon the run and should utilize their weapons better. ... Despite all the moves, the Bills shape up as a mystery team. How much different will the team look under a new coaching regime? How much of an impact can Willis McGahee make? Can Drew Bledsoe rebound from a poor season? The answers will determine if the Bills can turn around a streak of four straight non-winning seasons.�'
Playing politics [5:19 AM]
Orlando Sentinel reports: 'While Kemp said he always saw himself as an activist when it came to sports (he was the founder and president of the AFL Players Association during his playing days), he didn't necessarily know a life in politics would have been so successful. But with two years remaining on his football contract in 1970, Kemp decided to forgo his final days on the field to represent western New York in Congress. "I told people in Buffalo if they didn't elect me to Congress, I'd come back and play quarterback again," Kemp joked, recalling his final two seasons as a struggle for on-field success. "So they sent me to Washington."'
Linebackers Only Getting Better [5:38 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: '"We have a feel for each other now and how we all play the game," Posey said. "We can take more chances on the field because we know we'll be there to cover for each other."'
Player Spotlight : Willis McGahee [5:37 PM]
Fanball.com reports: Travis Henry finished his second year in the NFL in 2002 with a 1,438-yard, 14-touchdown campaign and ended up getting taken out back behind the woodshed while his team drafted his replacement in the following spring's draft. In the words of Ferris Bueller, "how's that for being born under a bad sign?"
Henry, McGahee Geared-Up For Season [12:18 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: '"I'm just ready to play football," McGahee said. "Playing with Travis (Henry) will be great. We always need to have our best players on the field and when we're both on the field someone's going to be open. They can't cover both of us."'
Baking an NFL Player [12:18 PM]
Rochester City Newspaper reports: If you're going to Bills training camp at St. John Fisher you might as well get something out of it. So, starting this week, I'm issuing scouting guides to help keep your mind occupied through all the stretching and hydrating. Now your trip will be more useful than a tube of toothpaste.
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Topic: Time for a Different Treatment
We just returned from the oncologist's office. Although my husband's recent CT scan did not show any change in his liver or lymph nodes, there has been an increase of fluid in his abdomen. Because of the fluid and some recent elevations in some of his liver enzymes, the doctor suspects some progression and recommends a change in treatment. My husband started FOLFIRINOX last November but several months ago the doctor dropped the oxaliplatin and reduced the dosage of the other drugs to reduce side effects. The doctor said that there are still standard treatment options available as well as clinical trials to consider in the future. He said that my husband's stamina and overall good health (not to mention his positive attitude) are factors in his favor. My husband will have an ultrasound tomorrow and then we will meet with the doctor on Monday.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun sat out a second straight game Thursday because he was ill, manager Ron Roenicke said.
Braun, who is batting .476 (10-for-21) through his first 10 Cactus League games, could return to action Friday in Surprise, Ariz., against the Rangers. He stretched with the team on Wednesday morning but was not scheduled to take batting practice.
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Corn futures turned upward in response to the Thursday morning USDA Export Sales report. Both the 282,300-tonne total for the 2012/13 crop year and the 371,000-tonne 2013/14 result topped forecasts, thereby implying the underlying export situation remains very tight. The May future continues struggling to top its 40-day Moving Average; that could be pivotal to the short-term outlook. May corn rose 5.75 cents to $716.0/bushel around midsession Thursday, while December gained 3.0 cents to $5.58.
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Bart Ehrman has finally composed an extensive response to my critical review of his book. But before that came out, he composed two briefer responses, one to my review of his Huffington Post article and another to my subsequent review of his book. He also briefly punted to another blogger, R.J. Hoffman. In this post I'll address those latter items. Next I'll reply to the longer piece (I've nearly finished my reply to that, but as I'm now at the Madison Freethought Festival with tons of amazing speakers and excellent liquor, I won't be able to proof that and post until Sunday evening).
The strangest thing about those latter items is not the alarming-enough fact that they ignore nearly every substantive point in what they are responding to, and focus each on only a single issue, and that one of the least importance (the Hoffmann piece likewise doesn't address anything I actually said). That is strange. But stranger still is that they do not look entirely honest to me. But I'll just present the evidence and you can decide.
The Deflection Tactic
Ehrman does appear to want to hide the substantive errors and mistakes and fallacies I document, and one strategy he uses to do that is to deflect it all by reframing the debate as being about personal attacks and my being mean to him (when he was so nice to me). This of course has nothing to do with what really matters and just serves the purpose of trying to convince people that all my substantive points about his scholarship are really just personal attacks and since personal attacks are fallacious (being the fallacy of ad hominem), all my points can be dismissed as fallacious. Which may be the first time I've ever seen an actual ad hominem fallacy used to rebut a non-existent ad hominem fallacy. He attacks me personally, by claiming I attacked him personally, which I didn't, and has the gall to then say (correctly) that personal attacks can be ignored as fallacious. Yeah. Think about that for a minute.
As Dan Finke (Camels with Hammers) observes in "Ehrman Evades Carrier's Criticisms," "Ehrman is misrepresenting Carrier's criticisms as merely personal in nature," when in fact they were all professional in nature. I pointed out failures of wording, failures of fact, and failures of logic, and showed why these all entail his book cannot be trusted, that his research and writing of it was sloppy and careless, that it fails at its every professed aim, and that he (professionally) doesn't know what he's doing here–ironically, considering how much hay he tries to make over the point that the rest of us can't know what we're doing because we have the wrong degrees (see the very next point on the Thompson Affair: making hay of this is practically the whole point of that post).
The Thompson Affair
In "Richard Carrier on The Huffington Post Article (1)" (I can no longer find an active link) Ehrman accuses me of being outraged by his daring to defend historicity, which is silly (it's not like I was surprised he was going to, or that I haven't read such defenses before from scholars no less prestigious; to the contrary I was, as I said, happily anticipating a really good defense of historicity). This I suppose cures his cognitive dissonance by allowing him to pretend I wasn't outraged by what I actually said I was outraged by, which was his factual errors and gross misstatements, and how these ensure his article can only seriously misinform the public, the one thing a scholar should aim never to do and should care most about correcting. That he won't even own up to his errors says more than my article did about our ability to trust him on this issue.
But the main thrust of his piece is an extended chastisement for suggesting Thompson was a New Testament scholar. Let me quote to you Ehrman's exact words (and those of you who read my article might already notice something odd about this; emphasis added):
Me: "there is not a single mythicist who teaches New Testament or Early Christianity or even Classics at any accredited institution of higher learning in the Western world." Carrier: Ehrman's claim "is false: mythicist Thomas Thompson meets every one of Ehrman's criteria." So on a very simple level, one might just ask: is it true that Thomas Thompson teaches NT or Early Christianity at an accredited institution? Well, no, he does not. He is an expert on the Hebrew Bible. His books are on the Pentateuch, the history of Israel in the Bronze Age, the alleged lives of the Jewish patriarchs. Now, I suppose someone from outside the field of NT or Early Christian studies might mistake someone with those kinds of expertise as being qualified to address, authoritatively, something having to do with early Christianity. But no one actually in the field would make that kind of mistake. Carrier too, of course, is not trained in these fields and is an outsider to them, so possibly that is why he doesn't understand the difference.
Okay. Get his point? Now, read the sentence he quotes from me…the full sentence, including the half he mysteriously left out (I have marked it in bold; I provide the rest to show the context, which was more than just this sentence):
[M]ythicist Thomas Thompson meets every one of Ehrman's criteria–excepting only one thing, he is an expert in Judaism rather than Christianity specifically. And I know Ehrman knows of him. So did he just "forget" when he says he knows of no one who meets his criteria? Or is he being hyper-hyper specific and not allowing even professors of Jewish studies to have a respectable opinion in this matter?
So Ehrman writes an entire article attacking me for not knowing a difference that in fact I explicitly stated in my article and thus clearly fully understood; and Ehrman predicates this attack on a quotation of me that conveniently omits the very material that proves his point moot, or at least misdirected.
Perhaps he has deliberately misquoted me, to make me appear to not know something that in fact I actually stated. My alternative hypothesis is that he misspoke and (yet again) really meant to say that I did indeed recognize and concede this diffence and had instead asked Ehrman for why we should dismiss everything Thompson says on such an account, to which this article is Ehrman's answer to that question. But then he repeats his misrepresentation of my credentials, suggesting I don't know the period in question, or the languages, or the documents or the literature on early Christianity. Which is all false. I am adequately trained in all of these. And it is disingenuous of Ehrman to assume Thompson is not, simply because he has a different specialty than Ehrman.
Indeed, contrary to Ehrman's claim, every historian in my field that I know publishes on all manner of diverse subjects. The idea that (to use Ehrman's own example) hyper-specializing in "Herodotus" disqualifies you from being competent to research and publish on other authors or subjects is ridiculous, and easily refuted by perusing the teaching subjects and cv's of prominent historians like W.V. Harris, Erich Gruen, Alan Cameron, or, to pick actual specialists in Herodotean studies, Donald Lateiner or James Romm. Romm, for example, is a specialist in Herodotus and Arrian (among much else), authors 600 years apart, one Greek, one Roman. According to Ehrman, we should ignore Romm's work on Arrian as being out of his field. Which would be news to Arrian specialists, who all value Romm's work. When my dissertation advisor, William Harris, wanted to publish a book on Roman anger, he did not say to himself "I have never published on that before, or taught it before, and did not specialize in it when I got my degrees, therefore I am not competent to research and publish on this subject so I should just shut up then." No, he applied his skills, degrees, and background knowledge to the task of thoroughly researching the subject and publishing a major authoritative work on it. That's what ancient historians do.
What is alarming is that Ehrman doesn't know that. For him to claim I don't "know" that it's the other way around is just appallingly rich: he is simply proving my point for me, that he really doesn't know what he's talking about, and prefers instead to disparage almost all modern scholarship in my field because it is produced by people who don't specifically teach those subjects and have not gotten hyper-specific degrees in them. His depiction and denunciation of nearly the whole of historical academia is simply absurd. All in his desperate attempt to justify the fact that he misleads his readers and misrepresents his opponents, all in defense of a dogma that he is certain cannot possibly be false, therefore he doesn't need to take us seriously (despite pretending to). If Romm can do good work in both Herodotus and Arrian, Thompson can (in principle) do good work in both OT and NT studies (the study of the OT does, after all, involve knowledge of second temple Judaism, the very context in which Christianity arose).
Never mind, of course, that all this looks like one big evasion: choosing to respond to my rebuttal to his HuffPo article by addressing this and only this point, which wasn't even a major point I raised but merely a single aside in my remarks about Ehrman's chilling remarks against academic freedom (the issue of that section, how his remarks can threaten academic freedom, he completely ignores). What is most galling about this is that my article demonstrates that it is Ehrman who hasn't done the work necessary to be qualified to discuss this question competently, and unlike Ehrman I did not base this conclusion on what degree he has (I think his degrees should be fully sufficient to make him competent to research and write authoritatively on this), but on the actual evidence of his incompetence. In other words, he has the qualifications, he just didn't use them. His book is carelessly and irresponsibly and illogically written. But instead of addressing my evidence and arguments proving that, Ehrman keeps harping on the matter of what degrees people have, making distinctions that do not carry his point, and now making claims about the publishing practices of historians that aren't even true.
Whether he is honest and well meaning or not, he's just digging his grave deeper with this kind of reply. It is making him really look like he doesn't know what he is talking about, can't reason logically, avoids every substantive issue possible, and isn't keen to accurately represent what his opponents have said. At least he redeemed himself by publishing a subsequent fuller reply to my review of his book; but still nothing in reply to my critique of his article,* which far more people will read, and thus whose mistakes and misstatements will do far more damage to public understanding of the facts and issues.
The Priapus Affair
In his second reply he addressed one single point in my review. And here I believe there is reason to suspect he is lying about the Priapus statue. In my review of his book I called him out for saying (certainly very clearly implying) that Murdock "made up" the statue at the Vatican that she presents a drawing of and says is a symbol of Peter. He clearly did not call the Vatican about it or research the claim at all. Because if he had, he would have said what any responsible scholar would have said, which is that yes, the statue she depicts is real and the drawing she provides is reasonably accurate, but her argument that it symbolizes Peter is not credible. It's just a pagan statue of the god Priapus.
Now in his reply on this point, in "Acharya S, Richard Carrier, and a Cocky Peter (Or: "A Cock and Bull Story")," he claims I misread him, that he never denied the statue existed nor implied that Murdock made it up. Now let's look at what he actually wrote in the book. You be the judge:
[Acharya says] "'Peter' is not only 'the rock' but also 'the cock', or penis, as the word is used as slang to this day." Here Acharya shows (her own?) hand drawing of a man with a rooster head but with a large erect penis instead of a nose, with this description: "bronze sculpture hidden in the Vatican treasure of the Cock, symbol of St. Peter" (295). There is no penis-nosed statue of Peter the cock in the Vatican or anywhere else except in books like this, which love to make things up.
That's the sum total of what he says about this. It is quite evident to me that when he wrote this, he doubted the drawing came from any source, and believed (and here implies to the reader) that she just made it up. There is no such statue. That is what he is saying. But you can judge that for yourself. Certainly, the one thing this paragraph doesn't say is that the statue she references does exist, is (or at one time was) at the Vatican, and looks essentially just as her drawing depicts it. It also does not say that she is merely wrong to interpret this statue as being of Peter. To the contrary, all it says is that there is no such statue, she made this up. Which is false. And betrays his failure to even check.
But he now claims he did check. Sort of–he says he saw her citations and assumed there were priapic statues; he did not actually say he checked her sources, or contacted the Vatican. Some commentators on his site have also tried claiming the statue was never at the Vatican, but their misinformation and mishandling of the sources is thoroughly exposed in an extensive comment by an observer at Murdock's site. The object may have been moved (as I implied was possible in my original review), but Ehrman said it didn't exist anywhere, so its location is moot. And I should add, this is precisely the kind of source analysis that Ehrman should already have worked through and be able to discuss informedly, yet in comments there he said the original commentator's findings were "very interesting" and "very hard to get around" (and he likewise mistakenly affirms they are correct in his subsequent post), indicating he didn't in fact do any of this research and isn't familiar with the source materials on the statue.
Of course he now claims that he never said the statue didn't exist. He only said a statue of Peter didn't exist. That's right. He parses his words hyper-literally to argue that he said the exact opposite of what he said. You see, when he said the statue didn't exist, that it was made up, he meant a statue of Peter, and since the statue that Murdock references and presents a drawing of isn't a statue "of Peter," the statue doesn't exist. Get it? This is an amusing case of faux metaphysical deepness being used as an excuse to read a sentence as saying a statue simultaneously does and doesn't exist, depending on what one calls it. Even if that is really what he was doing when he wrote the book, this is just a variant of a masked-man fallacy ("The statue exists. She says it is a statue of Peter. No statues of Peter exist. Therefore the statue doesn't exist.").
It's bad enough that, even if this is true and he really meant to say the opposite of what he appears to say, he obviously wrote it so badly he not only sucks as a writer but can't even tell that he sucks as a writer (indeed only after repeated goading in comments did he confess that "maybe I should have phrased it differently"). But trying to use the "I suck as a writer" defense against the much worse crime of careless scholarship requires him to claim the masked man fallacy isn't a fallacy but a perfectly reasonable way to argue. Which only convicts him (yet again) of not understanding how logic works.
Before I get to the punchline, I really must emphasize this point: even granting his excuse, the fact that the wording is completely misleading and will misinform the public still confirms my point in citing this example, that we can't trust his book. If he so badly miswrote here that he meant the opposite of what he said, then how many other sentences in this book are as badly written and mean the opposite of what they say? Indeed, that he had to be repeatedly goaded before even admitting that this sentence does that, means he is not even capable of detecting when a sentence he has written says the opposite of what he meant. That entails we should trust his book even less. Because whatever filter is supposed to prevent him making these kind of mistakes is clearly not working in his brain.
As Kim Rottman says, an observer of this whole affair:
The issue is what the average reader of Ehrman's book is going to think he means. Ehrman's statement may be strictly true but I sincerely doubt that a lay person reading that sentence is going to take it to mean something like "there is such a statue but it's not a statue of Peter." They're going to think he means there is no such statue. Period. They're probably also never going to see Ehrman's rebuttal of Carrier's review and thus never know he corrected himself. … Then he acts like this is representative of all the examples Carrier gave; as if the rest can also be explained away as poor wording and that none of them were anything that's relevant to his overall argument. This response wasn't successful at all. If anything, he's dug himself in deeper.
Indeed. Ehrman is basically saying "I was never wrong. I'm just such a phenomenally lousy writer that things I wrote appear to say what they don't, and everyone who reads this book will often be misled in result." Others have noted the problem entailed by his repeatedly careless and irresponsible wording of things, which can completely mislead lay readers of his book. Ophelia Benson (Butterflies & Wheels), for example, found many problems with the way Ehrman's choice of words misleads, as well as his questionable logic (see: What Ehrman Actually Says, The Unseen, A Small Town Guy).
But I fear it may be worse than that. Because I don't actually believe him when he says he didn't mean to say the statue didn't exist. I suspect that is a post-hoc rationalization that he cooked up in an attempt to save face, after his careless and irresponsible scholarship on this matter was exposed. I suspect this not only because his excuse is implausible on its face (read his original paragraph again, and ask yourself how likely it is that someone who wanted to say "the statue she depicts does exist, but it's not a statue of Peter" would say instead what he did), and not only because he still doesn't claim to have researched her sources or contacted the Vatican (in other words, to do what he should have done), but also because, as several people have since pointed out to me, he said in a podcast (before my review and before Murdock herself exposed him on this) that the statue did not in any sense exist.
That's right. On Homebrewed Christianity, April 3 (2012), "Bart Ehrman on Jesus' Existence, Apocalypticism & Holy Week," timestamp 20:30-21:10: at this point in that podcast, Ehrman says Acharya talks about Peter the cock and shows a drawing of a statue with a penis for a nose and claims this is in the Vatican museum, at which Ehrman declares, with laughter, "It's just made up! There is no such s[tatue]… It's just completely made up" (emphasis mine). In context it is certainly clear he is saying there is no such statue of any kind, that her drawing is not of any actual object. (Note that I put the word "statue" in partial brackets because he speaks so quickly he didn't complete the word but started saying what is obviously the word "statue"; he doesn't pause to correct himself, though, he just quickly segues to the next phrase in animated conversation.)
Now, I must leave it to you to decide what's going on here. From both his own wording in the book and this podcast, it certainly seems that Ehrman had no idea the statue actually existed, until Murdock and I hammered him on it. Notably, I had emailed him about this weeks before my review, asking what his response to Murdock was, because I was concerned it didn't look good. I had not yet read his book, so I didn't know the whole thing would be a travesty of these kinds of errors. Ehrman never answered me (even though he has in the past). Only after my review did he come out with the explanation that he meant to say the statue existed but wasn't connected to Peter. And on that point I suspect he is lying.
I can give more leeway to a podcast interview, where we often forget to say things or say things incorrectly, and we don't get to re-read and revise to improve accuracy and clarity (though this excuse doesn't hold for a book). But here this does not look like an accidental omission or a slip of the tongue. He really does appear to think (at the time of that podcast) that the statue was completely made up, and that certainly appears to be what he says. Did he really also "mean to say" in that podcast that the statue wasn't "completely" made up, that in fact it existed, but that Murdock was only wrong about what it symbolized? In other words, did he once again say, as if by accident, exactly the opposite of what he meant? You tell me.
[P.S. After publishing this post, it occurred to me to mention as well, that in fact he gives no argument at all in his book for why Murdock is wrong to conclude this is a statue of Peter. His only argument is that the statue doesn't exist. Which only makes sense as a rebuttal if indeed he meant the statue wholly did not exist. Otherwise, why is she wrong to conclude it symbolizes Peter? Ehrman doesn't say. This seems to me strong evidence that he is now lying about what he really thought and meant when writing the book. Because surely he would give a reason why she is wrong. So what reason did he give?]
The Hoffmann Madness
While still composing his fuller reply to me, Ehrman punted to R.J. Hoffmann. Ehrman evidently doesn't know that in my opinion Hoffmann has gone insane. I've documented the evidence of this before. Hoffmann has a history of lying about me, for example once claiming I am in the financial employ of his enemies and was paid to attack him (arguably an outright libel). Hoffmann also has a history of reversing his opinions without explanation. He praised and loved my work before, but now says the very same work sucks. With no acknowledgment of having changed his mind or why.
Quoting myself from my previous blog on the Hoffmann matter:
It's strangely amusing (and exactly how he started behaving once I started criticizing him–he never acted this way toward me before) that he now slags off my chapter as vacuous and irrelevant when in fact he invited me to deliver that very talk at the conference, read it in advance of the talk, and it received a standing ovation at the conference, with nary an objection from him. Quite the contrary: his response was to say "I think personally you should be the conscience or historiographer in chief!" (email of 10 Dec. 2008) and "It would be to my liking if you would take the lead-role in the historiography area…in my opinion we need someone with fresh ideas who can keep them honest about the kind of history they (often) are doing" (email of 18 Dec. 2008). (The conference was held the weekend of December 5.) He never said a negative word until now.
Hoffmann also once insisted Jesus didn't exist. In a podcast of 2007, talking to D.J. Groethe about the Jesus Project (on Point of Inquiry), Hoffmann said "I happen to believe that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist–I happen to believe that" (timestamp 22:44; see also his remarks at timestamp 14:13-16:15). Now he insists such a notion is absurd and no respectable scholar could believe it (which evidently means he wasn't a respectable scholar five years ago). He also in that podcast defended the dying and rising god mytheme: "gods and sons of gods populating the world, dying, rising, saving the world, which we've known about now for the better part of 200 years…it's not new" but is established scholarship (timestamp 4:20).
In the post Ehrman punts to, Hoffmann tells another lie about me, a really weird one in fact: "He [i.e. me] is about to re-publish (he had vanity published it already) his 'research' on this subject with Prometheus Books." I can't fathom what book he means, as there are only two he could mean: one (On the Historicity of Jesus Christ) that hasn't even been completed and won't be published until next year (I have never published a book arguing Jesus didn't exist; that will be my first one), which does not consist of material I have published before but is almost entirely new research; and Proving History, which was scheduled for late April release but dropped early and is available now.
If he means the first of these, he would be lying about its contents, since he has no way of knowing what those contents are, or that they duplicate anything I've published before (and since I haven't published on the historicity of Jesus before, that would be impossible). If he means the second of these, then he is really shooting himself in the face here. Do you know what the "vanity press" was that previously published my work before I published it with Prometheus? Prometheus. That's right. And you know what book that was? Sources of the Jesus Tradition. Do you know who edited that book, and selected the chapters to include in it? R.J. Hoffmann.
Yep. That's right. Do the math on that. That chapter was also, incidentally, a paper I delivered at an academic conference organized by R.J. Hoffmann and to which I was invited by R.J. Hoffmann.
It's shit like this that convinces me Hoffmann is off his rocker. Ehrman might want to steer clear of him in future.
Rhetoric as a Means to Avoid Argument
In his article on the Priapus case, Ehrman says things like this:
One of the things Carrier laments is that I don't deal with the various mythicists all at length – even (this is a special point he presses) those who cannot be taken seriously (he names Freke and Gandy). My view is that there is no reason to take seriously people who cannot be taken seriously: a few indications of general incompetence is good enough.
First, note that about his scant treatment of bad mythicists I actually said "That alone I could live with (although I would have rather he not addressed them at all if he wasn't going to address them competently)." Notice how the paragraph above assumes I didn't say this, and fails to address what I actually said (that if he was going to just dismiss them so briefly, he should have done so competently or not at all).
But then notice how he asserts a principle in his own defense ("a few indications of general incompetence is good enough" reason to dismiss an entire book as unworthy of further attention) which is precisely the principle I applied to his book (I found more than a few indications of general incompetence). Which leads me to wonder: does he regard his treatment of them as an inappropriate personal attack that they didn't deserve? Or as simply a demonstration that the books he examined are incompetently researched and incompetently written, a perfectly valid thing to point out and say, and exactly what I did (but that he in his response attacks me for doing).
But even more alarming than his misrepresenting what I said, avoiding answering what I did say, and applying a double standard in his own defense, is the rhetorical trick he just pulled here. Did you notice it? Let me walk you through it. He says "One of the things Carrier laments is that I don't deal with the various mythicists all at length," and then adds an aside that I "even" say so regarding the bad mythicists (although, as we just saw, that is not exactly what I took him to task for). Then he gives a defense for not addressing the bad mythicists (beyond cursorily). And then…he moves on. Wait a minute. Where is his defense for failing to properly address the good mythicists?
Here is what I said, regarding the good mythicists:
He treats our arguments only selectively, never comprehensively, and I never once saw him actually engage directly with any single mythicist case for their theory of Christian origins–as in, describing the theory correctly, listing the evidence its proponent offers for each element, and then evaluating that evidence and the logical connection between it and their conclusion. You won't find this done once, anywhere in this book, for any author.
On his failure to do that, Ehrman has nothing to say. But the one failure of this book I said I could live with, that he defends. Really.
Is this where historicity is going? Is this how we are to be treated? And Ehrman has the gall to say we are the ones behaving inappropriately?
Closing Nonsense
Ehrman ends his defense of the Priapus debacle with some rather astonishing remarks. First, he says:
Let me say, in addition, that this comment of mine was made very much in passing. No major point was being made, other than that Acharya S was not a scholar who could be trusted (in part because she is not a scholar) in the context of eleven rather egregious mistakes that I picked out, more or less at random, in her book. Carrier does not object to any of the other ten. Which means that he appears to be on board with all eleven. That means that his cavil has no effect on my overall argument at this point.
First of all, dismissing this as a remark in passing that didn't make a major point is extremely disingenuous. It is not a passing remark but an integral piece of evidence he produces to argue a conclusion so significant it justifies him dismissing the rest of Acharya's work. That is not only a major point, it's the major point of his entire treatment of her. Secondly, I explicitly said I was only producing examples, not comprehensively vetting every statement he made, so for him to conclude I agree with everything else he said about Acharya is obviously fallacious reasoning, and again demonstrates he doesn't know how logic works.
I actually found two other misleading statements among his list of evidence of Acharya's incompetence. I do agree with his conclusion (I do not think her work can be trusted on this subject, as I also conclude now of Ehrman's work on this same subject), but I am already well known for saying that, and that wasn't the issue I was raising in my review. Rather, my point was that, if he was going to treat the bad mythicists at all, we needed a book that did a competent job demonstrating the unreliability of work like this. And he did not give us one.
Since he brings it up, let me list the other problems I found here (written in the margins of my copy of his book, p. 24):
(1) Ehrman's statement that there weren't "many councils" to decide the NT canon is, read literally, false. There were in fact several councils ruling on the canon, and indeed the canon was never truly settled until the 16th century. Someone who tutored under Metzger, who extensively documented these facts, should know that. I can only assume he meant to say that the canon proposed by Athanasius in 367 (in a letter, not a council ruling) was repeatedly affirmed by every subsequent council convened to decide on the canon (although the fact that they had to keep meeting to do that means there were repeated attempts to change it). Acharya's own characterization of the matter might also be accused of being misleading. But Ehrman's wording is going to seriously mislead and misinform the public even more, not only as to the actual history of the canon, but also as to Acharya's knowledge of the facts.
(2) Ehrman correctly says the Acts of Pilate was never canonized, but this conceals from the reader the fact (which could be what Acharya's argument was actually premising) that it was by many regarded as authoritative. Tertullian, for instance, cites it as authoritatively establishing facts about Jesus, which is late second century, and thus relevant to the matter of how well Christians could be trusted at the time to really tell the difference between reliable and unreliable source materials when aggregating their canon. Thus here Ehrman doesn't say anything that's literally false, but his statement does mislead the reader on the most relevant point Acharya may have actually been making.
Note also that these are just details I detected right away. His other remarks against her are true as stated, but I did not actually check in each case whether he accurately represented what she said. From my experience here and with the whole book, I cannot implicitly trust that he has. Which only further illustrates the overall point of my review.
Ehrman concludes with this:
Carrier appears to want to show that he is very much a better historian than I am. This is a repeated theme throughout his scathing critique. I, frankly, did not realize that this was supposed to be a contest between the two of us, and am not interested in the question of who wins. My interest in the book is to discuss whether Jesus existed. I give mounds of evidence to show why he did, and to show why mythicists' views are almost certainly wrong. The majority of Carrier's "errors in fact" are this kind of cavil, in which he sees trees (often incorrectly) while missing the forest.
Notice the rhetorical trick here: "the majority" of my points are a list of errors, therefore I missed the point of all the evidence he presented. Go read my review. You will notice I made a particular point of addressing the latter by demonstrating the doomed fallacies in his methodology. So in fact I did not miss the forest. I deal with the trees in part one, the forrest in part two, all in the same post. He says nothing about that. You decide who then to trust on this issue.
It is also amusing that he uses the quantity of my examples of his mistakes as an argument to dismiss them as taking up too much of my article, when in fact I am sure he would have accused me of having too few examples if I'd given fewer. In other words, I made a general point about the unreliability of the book and gave a large enough number of examples to make sure the point was solidly proved. And he then charges this as a failing in my review. Once again demonstrating that he doesn't know how logic works.
He also returns to the ad hominem deflection here, by alleging I am making this into a pointless contest over who is the better scholar. Yet he is the one who made it about that. As we saw in his article about the Thompson affair (and as I showed regarding his HuffPo piece), he attacked my credentials and argued that he is qualified to discuss this issue and I am not (likewise Thompson and others). For him to now say he is not interested in this comparison is massively disingenuous. It's his comparison, which he has pressed several times, and it was that that forced me to respond by pointing out that the facts seem to point to the reverse. For him to claim I am the one who brought this comparison up is simply absurd. All I did was take his own argument and defend it properly: instead of making fallacious and irrelevant points about the hyper-specifics of what degrees we have (as he did), I tested the comparison he himself started by actually looking at the quality of our work on this subject. A comparison in which he came out very badly.
I do not see this as a competition between us as to who is the better scholar, but as simply a matter of who to trust: someone who presents carefully researched, carefully worded, carefully reasoned work on this subject, with a minimum of mistakes (because as I've said, I make them, too), or someone who doesn't.
[For my reply to his "fuller response" see Round Two.]
* After I wrote this, he responded in April of 2014 to one trivial item, and that disastrously.


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