Intersting article at The Guardian about how european textbooks are being re-written to reflect a more warm and fuzzy, cohesive, EU-centric view of european history. Heh. Someday, the way this is all going, the only folks who will have a good understanding of how europe became europe will be on this side of the Atlantic, and the only people who have a good understanding of *american* history will be anywhere but here.

That whole ignoring history and repeating it problem? Not just a theory.

Neil Gaiman has some interesting thoughts on it.