You couldn't make it up dept. no.17: this has to be a fake

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If you were a right wing conspiracy theorist, these days your targets of choice would include agnostic left-wing clergymen, especially Anglicans. You might also have it in for gays, and suspect them of being in the habit of backing each other up - Isaiah Berlin, who was no right-winger, had a nice name for this habit of homosexual associationg: the "homintern". And you might also have it in for Freemasonry, that nefarious association of shadowy financial powers and anti-Christian theorists. So.... how about a homosexual Anglican clergyman who just happens to be the head of the whole Freemason cult in Freemasonry's own ancient homeland, Scotland?

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1940462005

Personally, when I read this, I laughed my head off. It is too perfect a story. It only misses the Jews to make it complete.

Don't ask me what I mean by it, or whether I take any of that stuff seriously. I do not approve either of Freemasonry or of homosexual Anglican ministers. And as far as I am concerned, the one is quite fit to join the other. But I hope nobody will ever think that I would find any of the conspiracy theories involved any more than hilarious.

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[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

I love those cosmic-reaching, epic conspiracy theories that try to explain absolutely everything, rather like a sociocultural Unified Field Theory. There is a raido program on here in the states that is also brodcast internationally, "Coast to Coast AM". The hosts are (on weeknights) George Noory and (on weekends) Art Bell, and they are stark-raving bananas. Every conspiracy theory imaginable is put on the line on that show as if its gospel, even if they cancel others out that have been on before. Sometimes they're on in the same show. (It's a 5-hour program.) If you want a real belly-laugh, check them out. Google "coasttocoastam", and you'll get their site. It's a real hoot.

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

I wake up to "Coast to Coast" every morning. It's a surreal experience, almost every time. Makes me happy I don't live in their asylum (and waking up happy at that hour is quite a feat).

As for the Masonic Conspiracy, not being a man, I'm not in the "circle of trust", so I can't postulate on the Super-String Underworld. Those threatening, shadowy, masonic figures have only been stuffy old men on my side of the pond - grandfathers making pancake breakfasts for poor kids. (Some of them even wear the same hats as the K of C in parades.) I've heard a lot of nasty stories about shadow governments from non-Americans, and non-Masons, but not enough to make Grandpas into uber-villains who disguise their evil lairs under a Children's Charity Hospitals and nursing homes.