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The Return of the Sith Lord
Anyone who was waded through online conspiracy theories has no doubt encountered ample stories and allegations surrounding Aleister Crowley: that the famed British magi was a Satanist and intelligence...
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Family Ties
Just when one thinks the current political climate in these United States can't get anymore surreal, Washington has once again found a way to up the ante. For those of you living under a rock, on...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the seventh installment in my examination of the high weirdness that has intrigued the far right over the decades. Over the course of this series I've used high weirdness as a catch all for...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the eight installment in my epic examination of the involvement of the far right in "high weirdness." Over the course of this series I have used "high weirdness" as a catchall for a host of...
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The New World Chaos
A little over a month ago the great Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun made the highly perceptive observation that Donald J. Trump is bringing what Canadian journalist Naomi Klein dubbed "the Shock...
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Family Plots: Teflon, Hillary and Coe
A recent poll conducted by USA Today revealed that Americans have recently reached a consensus on two topics related to politics and the public sphere in general. The first is that we universally have...
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The End of an Era
Death may be an inevitable fact of life, but there are always ripples when a public figure sheds his or her mortal coil. Music fans the world over were especially distraught after 2016 seemingly...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the ninth installment in my epic examination of far right wing pursuits in high weirdness. Throughout this series I have been using high weirdness as a catchall for a host of arcane topics...
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The Game
As the reality show version of Game of Thronescontinues to play out in the Oval Office the world lurches ever closer to another world war. Where to even begin keeping score of the incredible...
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4/20 Musings
After some uncertainty, it has now be announced today that The X-Fileswill be returning to us for an eleventh season. Even better, it is slated for a ten episode run this time around. As good as the...
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A Fringe Digression: The Pioneer Fund and the Christian Right
Regular readers of this blog are no doubt aware that for the past several months I've been posting regular installment in a series entitled "Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right in...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the tenth installment in my epic examination of the strange netherworld of high weirdness and the far right. Over the course of this series I've used the phrase "high weirdness" as a...
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Recluse on THC
I'm pleased to announce my second ever podcast, this time of The Higherside Chat. Host Greg Carlwood and I discuss a host of topics over the course of almost two hours. The first hour is presently...
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The Babylon 5 Curse --Updated 6/21/17: Another Death
NOTE: An update is at the bottomAs a child of the 90s, I was blessed to experience some of the most ambitious genre fiction in my formative years. I missed Twin Peaks during its initial run, but had...
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Twin Peaks Musings
As some of you may be aware, Twin Peaksand The X-Files are my all time favorite shows. As a child of the 90s, I was lured into The X-Files debut in 1993 while still in elementary school. Twin Peaks was...
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Cry Havoc...
It seems like everyday the mask comes off a little further. After years of chaffing under civilian control, the Pentagon finally got one of their own atop the DoD when The Donald appointed General...
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Orange Alone
Is this the end? I'm always reluctant to write off the Orange One --every time you think he's finally torpedoed himself for good, he manages to come back. Its been this way for decades now.But there's...
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Fringe and COG Part II
Welcome to the second installment in this appendix to my ongoing "Fringe" series. For those of you just tuning in, here's a brief recap: "Fringe," now spanning eleven proper installments and one prior...
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Sonic Attacks and Spy Games
Regular readers of this blog and veteran conspiracy watchers in general have probably been following reports concerning the curious plight of US diplomats stationed in Cuba with some interest. The...
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Men in Black: The Hidden History of the Knights of Malta Part I
In all the annuals of conspiracy literature there is probably no other organization more misunderstood and misrepresented than the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), more commonly known as the...
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