Jeffrey L. Pasley is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri's main campus in Columbia. He is author of "The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic and numerous scholarly articles on early American history. He also writes a "historical punditry" column for the online history magazine Common-Place and keeps a weblog at History News Network [http://hnn.usl. He is much less snooty than the history professors at UC-Sunnydale.