15 cases in WA in 2008.

in short: highway hypnosis, sleep deprivation, and the Cannon Mountain observation tower's light. love the turn-by-turn revisiting of the original trip.

Giving too much time, space, energy to the crazy

::facepalm::

or: 25 yrs ago they added an inventory control number to help avoid SSN fraud. ::sigh::

the crazy, it burns.

"while there is no credible evidence to support such views, and the sheer unlikelihood of being able to pull off such an immense plot and keep it secret for four decades staggers the imagination, the deniers continue to amass accusations to this day" includes guy that Buzz Aldrin punched in the face.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." I also ::heart:: the alleged british version: "Cock-up before conspiracy"

"What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?" -- wigging out approximately...now.

"As a security guy, I'm paranoid, but I don't understand the threat model here. On the other hand, four accidental failures in a week is a bit hard to swallow, too."

just for reference

woefully silly.

"Turns out, we need grand theories to make sense of grand events, or the world just seems too random" -- which is why I have so little patience for conspiracy theory; I have a very high tolerance for randomness in world events.

"in our increasingly technological society, spotting voodoo science is a skill that every citizen should develop" -- and voodoo science is fscking everywhere. :(

"PsyWar.Org is a repository for the serious historical study of psychological warfare [etc]"

A fascinating conversation..."But it’s not people in uniform who are seizing power. It’s militarized civilians"

terrifying & depressing. only media to look smart? one of the sports guys of my childhood: "I was a sports reporter, so I was used to dealing with numbers"

rebuttal to the MIT research (I can't tell if this is serious or not!)

or, the tinfoil hat makes it EASIER for the gov't to read your thoughts ;)

ufo sightings overlaid on google maps.

unnerving. it feels like the far right and the far left met someplace and then became reality. or something.

more depressing than I can possibly express. I feel permanently sick at heart.