Speaking of scary, yes, I should NOT have fallen for the “We provide free Lasik to all Coilhouse co-conspirators” line. BIG mistake.

BOHEMIAN GROVE! I’d still love to see a full Coilhouse post devoted to it one day. Mer, I think you were going to do one a while back, weren’t you?

Thanks for the hours of entertainment, Ross.

Icke’s Reptilians are right up there alongside Stanislav Szukalski’s waddling Yeti hybrids as glorious, paranoia-inspired, cryptozoological predators of humankind.

Unlike blowhards like Alex Jones, there’s something about David Icke that I always found oddly appealing.
He seems to press on with his deliriously lurid theories
with the earnestness of a panicked child telling his parents that there’s a monster under his bed. Besides, how can I not love the idea of lizard people?

A few years ago I noticed that a substantial number of people I had encountered, ( most of whom I thought should otherwise know better ) had begun going on about Globalists and the Illuminati, in that all too dogmatic tone of voice.
Naturally intrigued, I looked into these subjects and I was fortunate enough to first come across Jon Ronson’s excellent, above-posted series which gave me a healthy sense of perspective on some of the more pernicious memes slithering through the culture at large.

Over time, I’ve become quite a fan of Ronson and will be looking forward to see the upcoming film adaptation of his book, “”The Men Who Stare at Goats”.

Thanks, Mr. Rosenberg!

I’ve encountered a fair amount of conspiracy nuts working in journalism, and these may be the best, most human portraits I’ve yet seen of that type of personality and mindset. It’s easy to think of them as stereotypical crazies, but the truth, as always, is more complicated. The line between eccentric activist and stark raving loon can be surprisingly thin and depressingly easy to cross.