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Ding, Dong! Mafia Calling (with April Flowers)
[Bobby] needs some solid legal experience and this job should provide it. --President John F. Kennedy joking to Department of Justice official Ronald Goldfarb about why he appointed his brother US...
View ArticleMeatloaf Again?
By now, it's become a bit of cliche: everyone seems to remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when learning of the JFK assassination.Everyone includes a guy named Michael Aday, a...
View ArticleLike Watching a Film in Slow Motion
Below is the recollection of JFK assassination witness Linda Willis, interviewed in 1991 and posted by Encyclopedia Britannica.
View ArticleHopefully, There's No Time Like the Present.
I'm a bit delayed in posting the next real item here due to meatspace circumstances. We're dealing with the illness of a close family member, and it's something that has literally kept me up all...
View ArticleAn Ode to Miss Information: A Series Revisited
In July 2006, I posted a seven-part series chronicling an incident in my weird past. It was about a friend, referred to as Miss Texas, who mysteriously vanished amid a haze of intrigue involving the...
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Here We Go, One and All, Into the Storm
On 28 November 2017, an anonymous user posted an item on the /pol/ board of 4chan claiming to have top-level Q-clearance. In a thread titled “The Calm before the Storm,” he, she or they claimed that...
View ArticleLegends, Hoaxes, and the Big Lie: Zero-Sum
You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings…You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves...
View ArticleHell Jolted Loose
The not-so-secret cabal of Wilmington, NC city fathers had put much work into guaranteeing the results of election held Tuesday, 8 November 1898. Their Red Shirt minions had already threatened violence...
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Specter of the Incubus
The incubus, in Christian mythology of yore, was a demon that raped chaste or virtuous women as they slept. Sometimes this resulted in pregnancy, with the little devils (so to speak) produced by this...
View ArticleYour Interests Are My Interests....Until They’re Not
In 2000, North Carolina lawmakers Luther Jordan and Thomas Wright introduced Senate Bill 787 to the state legislature. After its passage, the new law established a fact-finding commission that...
View ArticleThe X-Spot: Year Fourteen
(Sigh!)I leave cyberspace for a year, and look what happens: a contentious US Presidential and Senate election, violence in the street, economic hardship, a seriously inept coup attempt, and, oh yeah,...
View ArticleThe X-Spot Year Fourteen: Sabbatical
As you’re probably aware, I haven’t spent that much time lately on this little corner of cyberspace I call home. Meatspace concerns have weighted down my time for research and writing, and have sapped...
View ArticleEt in terra pax hominibus, bonae voluntatis!
I hope you had a good, or at least tolerable holiday season. If you're like me, then cheer up. It's almost over.
View ArticleExpert v. Expert
Forensic pathologist Dr. Peter Cummings works for the Massachusetts Office of the Medical Examiner. He’s a bonafide expert. So is Dr. Cyril Wecht, former president of the American Academy of Forensic...
View ArticleReverse Angle
By now, you’re most certainly familiar with the Zapruder film. But there were other home movie makers in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day.
View ArticleWitnesses to History
Here’s a video that’s about as accurate as the Warren Commission findings.In case you’re wondering, this came from ClickHole, a website operated by that famed satirical rag The Onion. As ever...
View ArticleQwazy, Just Qwazy
You probably have come across a bizillion articles and videos on BuzzFeed, Cracked, Business Insider, Popular Mechanics and elsewhere mocking the idea of conspiracy. In fact, the terms “crazy,”...
View ArticleC’mon, I Can’t Be THAT Big of a Jinx, Can I?
In a post dated 14 June 2011, I confessed to a weird aspect of my writing. It’s something that has haunted me since graduate school. As I said then:For whatever reason, when I wrote academic papers,...
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