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Thinking about the birthers
The photo (right) is of me next to the iconic statue of Rodin’s “The Thinker” at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. I posed for the picture with the title of this article in mind, but without a clear...
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The problem with public records
I got this “IMPORTANT BUSINESS CREDIT NOTIFICATION” envelope in the mail yesterday from Dun & Bradstreet: They come every few months. I also get the occasional phone call from D&B asking me for...
View ArticleHelp wanted
A good many years ago I heard a talk by the head of the Shell Oil Company about the growth stages of businesses. He started off by describing the entrepreneurial company, and said that the growth of...
View ArticleReorganization
I saw this cool Cold Case Posse timeline over at RC’s blog (compilation by Verbalobe posted in parts at The Fogbow) and I wanted to link to it. That led to some re-thinking about the menu structure on...
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Birther burnout
There are ups and downs in the birther reporting business and you may have noticed that there haven’t been many articles of late. I suppose that’s a good thing, that the birthers haven’t done anything...
View ArticleMumble
A while back, I read and used a writing style in which private information was redacted by inserting the word “mumble” in the text, such as “according to my sources [mumble] is a CIA field agent.” So...
View ArticleBlacklisted
The IP address of this site has been listed by the Composite Blocking List. The result of this is that you may not be able to receive emails from the site, such as you normally would if you had...
View ArticleCitizenship dream
I awoke this July 4th morning with a very vivid dream on my mind. It was a travel dream, with ships and planes providing the setting. When the old wooden sailing ship I was on landed, I found out that...
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Birther doldrums
I have been wanting to write an article called “the demise of the birther movement” for almost 5 years now, but it just hasn’t happened. Still, in the chart above showing monthly visits to this web...
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Anonymity and Freedom of Speech
I support the right of anonymous speech, and that’s a longstanding policy on this blog. It’s an application of the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you—that particular...
View ArticleSite changes
I reported earlier that I had problems with emails being blocked from this site. It was due to someone sharing an IP address with my mail and web host who had an infected site. To prevent this issue, I...
View ArticleTolerance and respectful language
In an essay on categorizing conspiracy theories, author Paul McCaffrey writes, following a section describing the characterization of conspiracy theorists as wearing tinfoil hats: …the...
View ArticleLooking backward
This is not about Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel of the same title, but some thoughts about this web site. It’s a little difficult to get my mind around the fact that there have been 2,895 articles...
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How Obama’s birth certificate could have been faked
I’ve been around vital statistics since 1977 when I worked with a vital statistics office in Greenville County, South Carolina, that issued birth certificates and I wrote computer software that printed...
View Article11th Sunday after Pentecost 2013
Righteous anger It’s not an easy topic. Certainly there are things in this world to be rightly angry about, so long as anger doesn’t drown out everything else. Even the teacher of universal love,...
View ArticlePoruchik Mikhail Zulov
While many anti-birthers use pet names for various birthers, particularly for Orly Taitz and Mike Zullo, you will notice that I don’t use them in articles here and very rarely in comments. I do that...
View ArticleDoc’s State of the Birther Address
The conspiracy theory I call “the birther movement” has been around 5 years now and over that time we’ve seen an Internet rumor grow to a national phenomenon, where most people know about it and at one...
View ArticleChinese attack this site
I hate spam. I hate email spam. I hate comment spam. It drives me up the wall. One month we got over 10,000 spam comments on this blog, and it’s rolling in again, this time from IP addresses in China,...
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Framing the question
I’ve been involved in the Sisyphean quest to talk sense into birthers for about 5 years now. Trying to understand why it hasn’t worked has led me into psychology, political science, neurophysiology,...
View ArticleWhere is Mike Zullo?
Last night on Reality Check Radio, Foggy was substituting for RC. Foggy discussed the question: Where is Mike Zullo? The question was raised by a birther over at Birther Report, Ed from W. Va.: where’s...
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