One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure.

James Randi, magician and noted skeptic, has finally come out. Yes, that's right, at age 81 he reveals that he is gay. This apparently came as a suprise to some but not to regular readers of Jim Moseley's Saucer Smear who alluded in several issues to sex tapes of Randi and young men, some of them dangerously young from a legal point of view. These tapes were once available online but no more, alas, however partial transcripts are available here.

From Saucer Smear, Vol.56, No. 2, February 15, 2009

Dr. Chris Roth writes:

Thank you for the new 'Saucer Smear'.For me the big news in this issue was the death of 'Dr.' Frank Stranges. He was one of the last survivors of the Golden Age of the contactees.... I met him once in 1994 I think, at the same NUFOC conference where you and I first met face to face. I sat with him at the dinner and took the opportunity to quiz him, indirectly,about his tangential connections to the JFK assassination, an interesting footnote to his career not mentioned in your write-up.

Briefly: Frank Stranges was not really a Dr., his doctorate being a mere paper degree in Criminology, issued by a 'university' that existed only on paper, the post office box address of which was a suspected C.I.A. drop box shared with Fred Crisman, the Maury Island UFO incident witness who was later subpoenaed by Jim Garrison in his investigation of the Kennedy assassination. Crisman and Stranges were also, on paper at least, business partners at one point. When I asked Stranges whether he remembered Crisman, he told me rather tersely that he did not recognize the name and did not want to hear anything about it.

An Irish visionary says that the Icelandic volcano is a sign of the second coming.
The Virgin Mary told him so. Big things predicted on or before May 11. Crosses in the sky. New moons.

I found this image on batshit crazy Pam Geller's blog Atlas Shrugs (I won't link to it). If I weren't a gentleman (and if I knew Photoshop) I would post an image of myself pissing in her mouth. This is a woman who has called the President a "muslim", a "jihadist" and a "traitor" and yet still she gets invited to appear on Fox News.

Tom Tancredo:

"If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don't we just send him back?"

Back in the day a friend of mine and his brother and some other guy formed a band called Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Actually there was originally another member, as I recall, an attractive young black woman named Star. However, she must have left before this music video was made.

Guess what? The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

JFK: The Throat Wound: Where Was It Altered?

Oklahoma conservatives, lawmakers plot anti-federal militia "It's not a far-right crazy plan or anything like that."

Actually, yes, it is a far-right crazy plan.

Sean Hannity calls his audience "Tim McVeigh-wannabes" and they applaud

Best April 1 story: Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future