The evidence:

But apart from the manifest military history/RPG geekery of it — what if Rasputin’s high constitution had allowed him to make his final saving throw against poison? [UPDATE: Oops. Obviously he DID make his saving throw. He died of hit point loss from knives or whatever it was] — I’m not aware of an especial correlation [of alternate history] with right-wingery.

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What if Derrida had been raised by analytic philosophers? No one writes these things because the [alternate history] genre belongs to the military historians. Sad, sad.

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Not unless we find it plausible to conceive of History as Mind, in a quite robustly clinical sense, i.e. to the point where it would make sense to lay History out on the couch or give it a Voight-Mein Kampf empathy test. ‘Tell me only the good things you remember — about the Jews.’

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This sounds like a wonderful new slogan for the NRA: guns don’t kill people, History kills people.

. . . [A] Japanese-style monster movie. It starts with the Face of History (afflicted with a neurotic tic) moving over the waters, after it is awakened by deep, Ursprunglich phenomenological testing. The monster surfaces from the depths and moves in on Tokyo.

The anxious officer barks into his bulky field phone: ‘History is attacking the city!’ Guns fire. But the bullets bounce off History’s thick hide. Grooooonk!

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And here I thought teratology was still totally Airwolf.

(All this in one article and comment thread! I could go on, but hey, it’s all out there.)

Okay, maybe it’s just me.