Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘scientific wild-ass guess’

Good conspiracy theories should be at least slightly plausible

Attention hog Seymour Hersh claims that the United States Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff—the highest-ranking bureaucrats in the Pentagon—gave Bashar al-Assad intelligence to help him defeat jihadist terrorists. This isn’t even a good conspiracy theory. Hersh made it all up, as is clear by his claim that his source is a “former senior…

 

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Palestinian candle of depravity burns brightly

Have you heard the adage “A candle burns brightest before it goes out”? That’s what’s happening with the Palestinian candle of depravity. I prefer the original phrasing, from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1580), by Sir Philip Sidney. Like a Candle, which a little before it goes out, gives then the greatest blaze Today I watched…

 

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