Archive for the 'Books' Category
Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg
April 25th, 2009Derek Swannson, a pen name for a guy with a day job, has been reading Cryptogon for a while and he wanted to send me a copy of his book, Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg. I warned him that I didn’t have time to read it. He sent it anyway. Well, he actually […]
Queen Gives Mexico’s President Copy of George Orwell’s 1984
April 2nd, 2009Via: Telegraph: The president of Mexico received one of the more unusual gifts given by the Queen during an incoming state visit today – a copy of the classic dystopian novel 1984. At Buckingham Palace, Felipe Calderon was presented with a first edition of George Orwell’s nightmarish book, which tells of a totalitarian regime and […]
Gardening Industry Sees Boom as Families Grow Their Own Veggies to Save on Groceries
March 16th, 2009Path to Freedom is soooo good. Here’s the Journal, in case you get lost in all of the quality information on the main site. The Dervaes family was my inspiration to learn how to garden. They have taken urban homesteading to unthinkable levels; certainly beyond what might have been thought of as “maximum” even a […]
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
March 13th, 2009I haven’t read Emergency yet, but HOLY COW, the entertainment value on this one should be worth the purchase price alone. A previous Neil Strauss book, The Game, was about how to pick up women. So, while I doubt that John ‘lofty’ Wiseman has anything to worry about, Strauss seems pretty determined to learn about […]
Hitler’s Books: Insights Into an Evil Mind
March 12th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Providence Journal: The vault at the John Hay Library at Brown University is not exactly Hitler’s bunker, but it is below ground and could endure a bomb blast. It’s big. It’s locked. And inside, one finds something fascinating. No, the Führer’s not in there, but his books are — […]
Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”
February 14th, 2009Blackwater has probably been used for U.S. Government narcotics trafficking operations before, but it looks like that is going to be a major component of their business going forward. Note the phrase “aviation support” in the story below. Aviation support is synonymous with narcotics trafficking. If you read, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, this […]
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
The Globalisation of Addiction
February 2nd, 2009Every once in a while, Reddit redeems itself. Via: Nthposition: Bruce Alexander is best known – though deserves to be much better known – for the ‘Rat Park’ experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the […]
Book Claims General George S. Patton Was Assassinated to Silence His Criticism of Allied War Leaders
December 23rd, 2008Reader JT reminds us that Patton carried ivory handled revolvers, not pearl handled, as the Telegraph article below states in error. We know that when asked about those “pearl handles” on a later occasion, General Patton angrily corrected the reporter who asked the question and sharply explained that they were ivory. “Only a New Orleans […]
‘The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History’
December 22nd, 2008The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray Ponzi schemes? Check. Aircraft leasing? Check. Questionable activities with young boys? Check. Florida? Check. It’s an unfortunate choice for a title, with the Madoff situation just coming into view… Via: Orlando Sentinel: Credit for the biggest American […]
