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Conspiracy Corner – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Edition

September 5, 2011 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerWe’ve had a climatically challenging time of it here on the East Coast lately.  As you’d expect, there’s been a lot of speculation as to the “real causes” of these events.  Was the Virginia earthquake caused by nuclear explosions at secret Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMB)?   What accounts for the near-simultaneous earthquake in a seismically inactive region of Colorado?  Could it be… Satan? sabotage of the military’s “vast intercontinental military tunnel complex?”  Who knows?  Until someone adds something fresh to the genre, I’m over conspiracy theories about natural disasters.  Step it up, sheeple!

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Conspiracy Corner – Read It Before It’s Too Late Edition

May 21, 2011 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerThere’s no time to explain why this feature hasn’t appeared in eons, or to make my traditional, lame excuses for leaving you in the lurch when it comes to vital news of the frivolously flaky.  As everyone on earth knows, the Rapture occurs later today.  This End of Days prediction comes from Harold Camping, an 89 year-old civil engineer and radio host who calculated that May 21 is the 7,000th anniversary of the Great Flood.

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Conspiracy Corner – Eyjafjallajökull Edition

April 27, 2010 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerThe eruption of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in Iceland spewed an ash cloud that crippled air travel throughout most of Europe for a week.  Airlines lost as much as $2 billion, and tens of thousands of travelers were inconvenienced or stranded.  More importantly, my first ever overseas business trip had to be canceled.  Was there more to Eyjafjallajökull than meets the eye?  This Conspiracy Corner is personal.


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Conspiracy Corner – Feb 5, 2010

February 5, 2010 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerIt does my black heart proud to bring you the latest edition of  Conspiracy Corner.  Here we shine the light of righteousness on those dark corners of the human psyche that are best left unexplored, but from which you are powerless to look away.  It’s not unlike the proverbial car wreck, except here more people die – but never for the reasons they want you to think.  Today we’ll discuss secret organizations, mind control programs, and some not-so-natural natural disasters.

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Conspiracy Corner – Jan 18, 2010

January 18, 2010 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerOn behalf of the Wordsmoker Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce the return of Conspiracy Corner.  After a hiatus of several months while I sought treatment and spiritual renewal, we can once again offer Wordsmokers our exclusive, behind the scenes and no holds barred look at how the world really works, from the deliciously demented to the sublimely silly.  This week’s items cover compassionate Christians, prevaricating pols, and repugnant royals.

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Conspiracy Corner – Dateline Scotland

August 31, 2009 in A Birthday With Shoes, Conspiracy Corner

ScotsmanAwrite!  Hou’s it gaun?  Whit’s this, ye speir at us? The maist o ye ken that this is whaur ah gie ye a haund wit things ye dinna kin an’ aw that.  It’s like feeding jujubes tae an elephant mind, but dinna fash yersel an’ haud yer wheesht, it’s nae borra.  Ma heid’s birlin with all this information, frae blootert blethering tae haggis-fueled havering.  In past columns ah’ve telt aboot aliens and cover-ups and killings an’ aw ither thing. The day it’s gony be all aboot Alba.

The following is attributed to that bawbag and alleged Scotsman Dennis Miller, who kens hee haw aboot hee haw:

“The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody’s out to get you.   Nobody gives a shit whether you live or die.  There, you feel better now?”


tin-foil-cat-bulletBishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine started a barnie during a 2008 lecture in Glasgow by saying that the bufties have launched a “huge and well-orchestrated conspiracy against Christian values,” and that they’ve aligned themselves with minority groups and holocaust survivors in a desperate bid for sympathy. Not taking any fucking shite from those poofs.  In response to a question about what to do when confronted with a child’s “mission to become homosexual,” the bishop said not on yir nellie, advising parents not to “tolerate that behaviour.”

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Conspiracy Corner – June 29, 2009

June 29, 2009 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerIn the introduction to Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, her rigorously rational critique of New Age spirituality, Wendy Kaminer confesses that she goes to a homeopath. She’s the first to admit that there is no scientific basis whatsoever to support homeopathy’s effectiveness; it simply makes her feel better. I have practiced various forms of qigong over the years. These are Chinese breathing and energy techniques predicated upon the existence of an invisible substance known as qi (or chi). But whether or not there exists a Governor Channel or a Microcosmic orbit, performing qigong makes me feel vital and centered.

What are the appropriate limits to rationality? To what degree is it healthy to pay heed to emotion over reason, to suspend disbelief? And, trickiest of all, how do we make decisions in the face of conflicting evidence concerning our health, the subject of several of today’s items?

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Conspiracy Corner – June 10, 2009

June 10, 2009 in Conspiracy Corner

Conspiracy CornerIt’s time for another installment of the world-renowned column that looks behind the shadows to uncover the truth that dare not speak its name. Today we’ll highlight events in Greece and Iraq that happened, events during the Middle Ages that never happened, and we’ll speculate irresponsibly about doomed Flight 447, all in our unending quest to provide you with the real truth, from the beguilingly bizarre to the laughably loopy. During a more innocent time, before the age of Enron and Madoff, when all there was to contend with was the Great Depression, H. L. Mencken wrote:

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of the werewolves on Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.

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Conspiracy Corner – June 1, 2009

June 1, 2009 in Conspiracy Corner

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Welcome to the latest edition of the column that goes behind the scenes to unearth the real news, the facts they don’t want you to know, from the adamantly addled to the willfully windy. This week we’ll share some little known White House gossip, sensitively explore some theological subtleties, and solve that pesky same-sex marriage conundrum once and for all. Also, a little Beatles trivia to start off your week!


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