Dr. Conspiracy cancels plans for conspiracy-themed web empire
Press Release: November 6, 2013 Dr. Conspiracy, well-known anti-birther and blogger, announced today that he was giving up plans for a conspiracy-themed web empire. His web site, DrConspiracy.com, was...
View ArticleScan from a Xerox WorkCentre
This is really off topic, I suppose. A little box popped up on my computer desktop listing recent email arrivals, including one with the subject “Scan from a Xerox WorkCentre.” My first though was that...
View ArticleA log in their eye
Martha Trowbridge directed a comment to me at Birther Report. She said: The Lord judges us, not on how many talents with which we were gifted by Him, but by how we apply those talents. Not until my...
View ArticleCommunists, competence and birthers
I don’t consider myself an expert on Communism, but I did recently read a book1 that contained a good deal of detail about the Russian Revolution and the Communist government that ensued. What struck...
View ArticleThe most important evidence
I had an exchange with someone who has a lot of experience in debunking other conspiracy theories, but who is not part of the usual anti-birther cohort. I appreciated very much him offering his...
View ArticleFaded hope and broken dreams
Remember my article, “Tricked out Obotmobile?” The Obama 2012 sticker in the photo looked bright and shiny. It’s coming apart today. I don’t mean that my tattered Obama bumper sticker is a metaphor for...
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Large numbers
What are the chances that… A while back, I had a story mentioning a Cornell law professor named Michael C. Dorf. Part of the discussion revolved around correctly identifying the person from his name. I...
View ArticleCBL Project
I’m working on a combined birther list (CBL) project. The goal is to provide a list of all public birthers. It’s intended as a historical reference and Who’s Who. Also an index to the site. Here’s the...
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Dreaming of Zullo
I sometimes have these long rambling dreams that aren’t very interesting and don’t make a lot of sense—I had one this morning. This one was unusual because it had a birther theme, perhaps because I...
View ArticleYou can’t put the genie back in the bottle
Obots complicit I am not a happy camper today. I have written lots about my feelings on privacy and have tried to enforce some rules here about not associating Internet pseudonyms with real people. I...
View ArticleLearning from the birther list
My birther list, “Birthers from A to Z” has cruised past the count of 300. I’m pausing to think about the exercise. One of the things I learned, and this was a surprise, was a quirk in my own attitude...
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Internet Archive donation link added
Sometimes the world is generous and we receive gifts we cannot hope to repay. Sometimes we can give back. This blog and I have gotten so much from the Wikipedia that I personally donate to it, and I...
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Five years
It was in December 2008 when this post-presidential-election blog started with the intent of being a repository for the debunking of some fringe claims about Barack Obama left over from the election...
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Christmas truce
This is the second year of the tradition I started last December when I followed the lead of Steven Feinstein in declaring a unilateral truce in the battle with the birthers, for Christmas day 2013. I...
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2014 Obama Conspiracy Preview
I predict more of the same and some things different. Predicting the future is done for fun. It’s even more fun if some outlandish prediction actually comes true. My favorite prediction that did come...
View ArticleIs Obama a good President?
Lest any one be disappointed, let me say up front that I don’t plan to answer the question that titles this essay. I frankly do not know the answer, nor even have a firm opinion. When it comes to where...
View ArticleIneligibility is the new “nigger”
The dreaded “N” word is pretty much banned from public discourse in the USA. You can say s*** and f*** the rest of George Carlin’s 7 dirty words with impunity in many social settings (even if you’re...
View ArticleAltered states
I listened to the President’s State of the Union address last evening. To my ears it was unremarkable. It was a “glass is half full” description of the country offering motivation to move forward, but...
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What happened
I enjoyed reading the book What Happened by former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, but I did not particularly enjoy what happened over the last 8 hours when there was a question of whether Obama...
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Faux quote challenge
Here’s a contest that I announce with just a little trepidation. The idea is to come up with a “quotation” that you attribute to a historical figure, only it has to be fake. I’ve seen so many of them,...
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