Monday Book Report: Wacko of Delight vs. Wacko in a Whiter Shade of Vile

I Read It So You Don’t Have To Dept. My Opinions: Incest and Illegitimacy, by Alfred JordanThe Negro and the World Crisis, by Charles Lee Magne Sincerity is a casualty of this Ironic Age. We now are surprised to contemplate that perhaps some advocate of this or that position actually believes the things he or …

FBI ID’s Conspiracy Theories As Dangerous Ideas, Nation Yawns

In fulfillment of a promise made to a friend to review a recent news link, I hereby present some remarks upon both the link and the underlying FBI document which engendered this news, “Anti-Government, Identity Based, and Fringe Political Conspiracy Theories Very Likely Motivate Some Domestic Extremists to Commit Criminal, Sometimes Violent Activity“. What the …

(My Original Review of Secrets of the Tomb)

Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Powerby Alexandra Robbins Robbins’s book isn’t terrible. She reveals some of the banal truth behind the seemingly sinister facade of the Yale “tombs” in her sometimes rambling work. But her own sips of secret society Kool-Aid are obvious; her stated …