I could only get through half of it. While I wouldn't neccesarily disagree with the "ass" assertion of Clive here, the writer seems to be trying to get a stamp on his, "I'm a nice guy" card, then redeem it later on to get laid. There are plenty of assholes in history. Hell, plenty of celebrated individuals in history are complete assholes if you pull back the right curtain. Pointing out "bad deeds are bad" is kind of... eh, so what? All forms of progress, technological or social, has blood on their hands. Just depends who you think is the hero and what blood you think is sacred and which is sacrificial.
its a "humorous" slating of a historical person, but the footnotes talk about some prick from arizona? am I missing some extra context here?