Conspiracy theories – Cannonball Read 17

Take Me To Church

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen, Thomas Risen

July 12, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15Bingo: politics. Frank Church was a Senator from Idaho and the famous committee that bears his name was a Senate committee investigating the dirty deeds of America’s surveillance state. I’ll say this much for The Last Honest Man: the writers know why you’re here. I didn’t pick this one up to learn about the classes Frank Church took in college or what his favorite restaurant was when he was dating his wife. I picked this up to learn about Frank Church and […]

Paul is a Blue Hippo and John is hanging upside down

Paul is Dead by Paola Baron

September 1, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Paul is Dead. How many Beatles fans know that story? Paul McCartney died at the height of Beatlemania and was replaced with a copy. And Paola Baron explores that idea in Paul is Dead, a speculation fiction graphic novel that causes questions of fame, reality, and self to have more questions than answers. I do not want to know what Baron or illustrator Ernesto Carbonetti were smoking when they created this realistically abstract, realistic-surrealism book, because John Lennon was not the only one having an […]

Looking back on the last two months, and this is all I have to show for it.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

April 9, 2022 by ingres77 12 Comments

I was in college in 2005, studying archaeology and talking to creationists in my free time. The Passion of the Christ had come out the previous year, and I was smart enough to sound like I knew something about the world, but not smart enough to just leave well enough alone. I spent a lot of time talking about religion, and science, and art, and history, and literature. Politics would come later – but I was a college student, and it was the point in […]

It’s All A Conspiracy, Baby!

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch

July 30, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine who is not politically astute sent me a text asking if anyone ever got arrested for that “pizza thing.” I had no idea what he was talking about so I pressed him. He said, “You know, that child sex ring.” Oh yeah. That. Granted, he sent me this text two months after some gun-bearing idiot had gone to that pizza shop looking to solve things for himself. My friend, again who is not politically conscious, was referring to […]

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