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Category Archives: Kooks
Tip of the Triangle
I can’t believe I never saw how Glenn Beck fits into the Illumniti Conspiracy* before. It seems obvious, once you think about it. but I must admit, I’m baffled about the whole “Rappers are part of the Illuminatti” thing. How … Continue reading
Posted in 2nd Great Depression, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means, It's a Conspiracy!, Kooks
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Links for 12/19/11
A few odds and ends making their way from the internet to my brain in the last week: >A list of defunct auto manufactures and the cool cars they used to make, mostly from the nineteen-teens. Bless Wikipedia editors and … Continue reading
Business Opportunities Involving the London Bridge
Of all the novels we could be living in, this is not the one I would have suspected: Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism is a Whore, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means, Kooks, News, Wild Speculation
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The Grand Symbol of Our Mighty Republic
Slate: THE SKY, Dec. 20—We’re hovering 1,500 feet above Baltimore in a 200-foot blimp with Ron Paul’s name on it, and I’ve lost feeling in my hands. Elijah Lynn, vice president of the Ron Paul Blimp, passes around heat packets, … Continue reading
Posted in Kooks, Politics, Things That Are Not Bombs
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Welcome to Fantasy Island
China Mieville has a great article over at In These Times about Floating Utopias and the sinister, libertarian shadow, the tax-free micro-nation. It’s a fun read* but the best part is his summation of Libertarianism: Libertarianism, by contrast, is a … Continue reading
Posted in File Under: Unicorns, Kooks, Politics
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Today In Quack History
L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics was published in 1950: Dianetics was first published May 9, 1950 by Hermitage House, a New York-based publisher of psychiatric textbooks whose head, Arthur Ceppos, was also on the Board of Directors of the Hubbard Dianetic … Continue reading
Hey God, Next Time, Just Send A Condolence Card
I’ve only heard of this Dinesh D’Souza fellow once before, when he was on the Colbert report, selling his shitty book about how progressives and free thinkers were responsible for 9/11 and the only way we’re going to defeat The … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Culture War, Kooks
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He also Ate the Tooth Fairy, Chocolate Jesus and Six of Santa’s Raindeer
Who is short, talks funny and is always huntin’ wabbits? Kim Jong-il, of course: Karl Szmolinsky of Eberswalde faces a grim Easter. His gold medal pride,’ Robert der Grosse ‘, the largest rabbit in recorded Prussian history , is missing … Continue reading
Posted in Kooks, Politics
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Reason #578 to Get the Fuck Out of The South
National Socialist Party nominates as it’s Presidential Candidate for 2008, John Taylor Bowles of South Carolina. Not many Americans realise that there is an American Nazi party, or that they regularly ï¬eld a candidate in elections. And while they are … Continue reading
Lions, Tigers, and Dinosaurs
Archy gives us a great review of Ken Ham’s Creationist Museum, focusing on the story of the Ark: Ever since the book of Genesis became known to a broad audience, some twenty-four centuries ago, skeptics have questioned the possibility of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture War, Kooks
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