• The 2010 Brainsturbator Reading List

  A Terrible Mistake, by HP Albarelli. Although this list is technically in alphabetical order, this also happens to be my number one draft pick. There have been a lot of interesting books written about the shared history of LSD and the CIA, but all of them have been very incomplete. Albarelli...

• Ronald Hadley Stark: The Man Behind the LSD Curtain

  "...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications." -- Robert Heinlen 11/30/11 -- The curse of doing research out here in Weirdoland is that the really fascinating people...

• The Revelation of the Method

  I've been in love with that phrase for years: The Revelation of the Method is not my own invention, but borrowed poetry from the world of conspiracy theory. Although it gets referred to as an actual Masonic concept, it's actually a very recent fabrication from a Catholic "Revisionist Historian" named...

• The Conspiratainment Complex

  Conspiracy Theory lacks credibility because it has no history. Original research doesn't get cited so much as looted, refitted as filler content to feed new revelations to a hungry audience. They know what they like because they like what they know. It is a product that gets updated for new...

• 2010 | Year of the Ghost

  "He understood that the media beast can only be chewing on one ankle at a time." -- Howard Fineman, Newsweek I see Lee Atwater all over the country these days, and that's pretty weird, because Lee Atwater is dead. He has been for years, and yet it's 2010 and his fingerprints...

• Veteran's Day 2010

  "take your pleasantries your generalizations, good intentions, sweet words, and half-truths, put them in a box. drape a flag over it. and bury it with the rest of the dead." - Orrin Gorman McClellan March 22, 1985 - May 18, 2010 Requiescat in pace, Amor et gratia...

• Ken Mehlman: "Hope is Not a Strategy"

  Policy is shaped by the same demographic polling feedback cycles that shape campaigns. The sales pitch never stops in America. Barack Obama is a student of history and the past 30 years make it clear there's no other game in town. Like any thinking human, Obama is not happy with...

• The Greatest Achievement of Organized Science

  I first saw this image in a photo book about World War II that I read in sixth grade, and it's been stuck in my mind ever since. The caption was just some general text about the "devastation of Hiroshima," but I noticed it was actually a large pile of...

• Tracing Our Own Constellations

  It's not so much that I disagree with you about what the data points mean -- it's that I don't think our data points matter. We're still in the brainstorming phase, here. We still need to find the right geometry of "weird" facts and anomalous patterns to make the...

• Dreaming 5GW: Invisible War

  "Whoever finds me will kill me." --Gen. 4:14 5GW and marketing have a great deal in common. The one similarity I'd like to emphasize here: effective techniques are constantly mutating so fast that written theory is basically an autopsy. By the time we can recognize a pattern or strategy, it will...

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