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Pseudo-scientists, pseudo-shamans and mass delusion: contemporary US culture

by Jim Chaffee

[ december 10 ]

US citizens are as superstitious as any residents of so-called third-world nations. There have recently been localized delusions regarding witches in parts of Africa and New Guinea. But the operative word is localized. In the US it is national.

Tea Party and Know-Nothings

by Joe Palmer

[ december 10 ]

"The Tea Party wants a balanced budget, fiscal responsibility, limited government, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, along with charity to begin at home, the free expression of opinion, sovereignty, the rule of law, justice, God, honesty, family, Kinder, Küche, Kirche, Dum spiro, spero..."

A word album, lol

by Barrett Brown

[ november 10 ]

"The sexual revolution led to an epidemic of lesbianism and infanticide. Welfare reform led just as inevitably to mass starvation in the inner cities. The New Deal continued to snowball until 90 percent of the U.S. workforce was digging trenches and putting on Eugene O'Neill plays under the Works Progress Administration."