Tag Archives: lies

Stealing the Virgin Frescoes of Innocent Mirth From the Temple of Universal Corruption

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Too much of science ends up having been debunkery, meaning plausible explanations without merit once actual research is allowed, once actual evidence is considered, once open discourse is permitted. Megalithic structures such as those of Ancient Egypt, with impossibly precise … Continue reading →

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Childhood Fiction Lessons

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Grew up around guys whose sense of humor included dead-pan tall tales, to test people, to see how far along they could string them.  If the listener didn’t balk, they were laughed at once they left.   It was more … Continue reading →

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Fight the Agitprop, Rise Up Now

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Watched NBC News inadvertently on Sunday and discovered it is rife with right wing attitude and ‘lesson’ stories. Reminded me strongly of how brainwashed we were when I was growing up. Obviously the 1% is afraid of us now and … Continue reading →

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Review of Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers by Friedman & Marden

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers by Stanton T. Friedman & Kathleen Marden New Page Books, Career Press, 2016, trade Appendix, notes, bibliography, bw pictures throughout 288pp, $U.S. 16.99, ISBN:  978-1-63265-065-8 A Review by Gene Stewart The Truth Behind the Misinformation, … Continue reading →

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Between Blinks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Art is more important than history. What you create matters more than lies agreed upon. The notion of history is bogus. It is simply lack of imagination all around to think the stories told of earlier times are any more … Continue reading →

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Boiling the Censorship Frog

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Gene Stewart

First they come for your “porn”. To protect the children, don’tcha know? Then they come for your erotica. Slippery slope when wet, right? Then they come for your horror. All those unhealthy images. Next they come for your young adult … Continue reading →

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Be No Dupe

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Gene Stewart

My wife occasionally gets exasperated and asks me how I can get so much entertainment from, say, ANCIENT ALIENS, and I try to explain how I watch such things on a meta-level. Also, I get a big kick out of … Continue reading →

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News-Like Shows

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Gene Stewart

As Paddy Chayevsky warned in the script for the astonishingly-prescient film NETWORK, in 1976 mind you, the first hard shove toward the complete downfall of media journalism came when news organizations were placed under the entertainment banner and became responsible … Continue reading →

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Will History Fly?

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Kathleen Edwards wrote: Studying history is, for all I can see, nothing but a picking and choosing of the human race of what they want to sell from the past and and what they want to sell to the future. … Continue reading →

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Free From Before Free To: Late Night Thoughts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Gene Stewart

I grew up poor but never wanted for anything, so it’s always puzzled me why I feel such gnawing anger and outrage. It hits me now, at age 54, that I got this way not because I was oppressed, although … Continue reading →

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