Nothing like a good conspiracy theory at the end of a long, hard day, to really put your troubles in perspective!

Do you suppose Arnie IS one of those aliens behind Sept. 11?

Fascinating. Too much to comment on but one piece of it...:
"Playboy" promoting homosexuality? Among men, I always thought it encouraged the opposite tendency, certainly among any of the men I knew who read it.
I have an old book "Playboy on Sex", consisting of many of the letters they published in their Forum during the early 1970's. The exchanges were very much like those in Usenet or in these blog comments. One such was a debate between Hefner and Franklin Kameny of the Mattachine Society and Rita LaPorte of the Daughters of Bilitis. Hefner did not condemn homosexuality as immoral and opposed it being illegal, but he did try to argue for the superiority, psychologically, of heterosexuality or at least bisexuality over "exclusive" or "compulsive" homosexuality. Mr. Kameny and Ms. Laporte very ably defended homosexuality on the ground of the right (and moral duty!) of the individual to be different, to refuse to succumb to social pressures for conformity. Very far above so many of today's debates where homosexuality is assumed to be undesirable and the only question is whether it's a sin or a genetic defect.

He sounds like a disciple of Lyndon LaRouche.

Wow. Amazing what a total lack of perspective will do for a person.

It's nice to be able to connect EVERYTHING that's wrong in the world to one absolute source.

I realize your post was tongue in cheek, Eric. But these guys...They worry me.

Here's something that worries me a lot more: I just finished reading an essay by Kim du Toit defending the Electoral College (via Dean Esmay). But I glanced at du Toit's blogroll and saw that he lists _!!HOWARD VEIT!!_ among "Bloggers I Read Every Day"! For laughs, _I hope_!