Well-meaning people direct the close minded to my blog. The usual response is, “It’s just a bunch of conspiracy theories.” No. I write about machinations, not conspiracies. Here’s the difference. Conspiracy: a secret plan that two or more people hatch in order to do something harmful or illegal. Machination: a complicated secret plan. Guess who…
Tribalism is the downfall of the west
March 31, 2016
I’m old enough to remember a period during which Americans weren’t belligerent idiots. The cause of our decline is tribalism. Western tribalism is a sort of junk-food version, dumber and more superficial than what you find in so-called backward regions of the world. The blindness of tribalism I knew this was phony the second I…
Deny the accuser. It won’t change reality
March 13, 2016
The bassist for “Weird Al” Yankovic is Stephen Jay, a musical genius. One of his best songs is titled “Deny the Accuser.” I’m being flooded with attempts to talk me out of my contention that Thomas DiMassimo’s attack on Donald Trump was an Islamic State dry run. You need to understand something: I wrote that…
The downside of figuring things out
August 26, 2015
All my life, I wanted to know “Why?” It’s the reason I was never able to be religious or to join any group. Usually I was told, “Because I say so,” or “Because that’s the way it is,” or “You ask too many questions.” I could never give up my hard-earned understanding of how things…