Mish-mash

Again, if you want to get daily glimpses of my thoughts, mostly (but not entirely) on the current political scene as it is molested and assaulted by Leftists, see my Twitter page at @ArguiteAdVodkam.

That handle, by the way, is a play on the fallacy "argumentum ad vinam" -- literally, an argument relying upon dismissing your opponent's position by fixating on his drinking too much wine.  Initially, I wanted "Argumentum Ad Vodkam" but that apparently was too many characters, so I had to settle for the artful stratagem of reconfiguring the Latin noun "argumentum" into a verbal form, choosing the imperative "arguite" -- such that the full handle literally means "Make your case by fixating on your opponent's vodka drinking!"

And by the way, I don't visit this blog much (as even casual readers would be able to figure out), so at any moment I might be suspended from Twitter.  I've been suspended then re-instated at least twice, and both times my blog lagged behind my situation, so to speak, if you were...

In my perpetual, albeit fitful, quest to probe the Cabal in its various permutations and crannies, I came across a video where a lady named Rima Laibow was interviewed. Apparently, she's been a psychiatrist for decades (in her 60s or 70s now) and she seems articulate and intelligent, and ostensibly she's on "our side" in this whole Shitshow; but as she continued waxing in the interview, I began to experience a bit of disquiet as to whether there wasn't something a bit too labile & credulous about her conspiracy theorizing (a term which readers of mine should now I don't consider necessarily a pejorative, as I consider myself, in fact, to be a "conspiracy theorist"). At any rate, I did a little crafty Googling (which involves a neat trick I thought up, of specifying "Google Books" in my search, and then further refining it to limit the search to the 20th century.  I picked up her name that way 2 or 3 times, nothing terribly noteworthy; then I saw an interesting notice of a book which only provided a snippet about her, but the book itself looked interesting -- "Report on Communion" by Ed Conroy. So I bought it and I'm currently reading it.  It's mainly about Whitley Strieber, whom I'd never heard of before, who apparently had been a media sensation in 1987-88 due to his book Communion, in which he recounted what he presented as actual encounters with alien beings.  The book remained on the New York Times bestseller #1 spot for weeks and weeks, and aside from being written up by most major print media, he was invited on all the big talk shows:  CNN, Larry King, Johnny Carson, Charlie Rose, Regis & Kathie Lee, Phil Donahue (and probably more).  Anyway, I thought on a whim I'd look him up on YouTube, and expected to see some old Kinescopes of his appearances on Jack Paar (har har), assuming he was long deceased -- but lo and behold, he has a YouTube channel with hundreds of videos over the years, and he may be alive as I type right now (the last video I think was a few months old).  I browsed through and was tickled to find that he had a video from 3 years ago interviewing a guy I was fascinated with when I was a teenager -- Erich von Daniken, the writer of Chariots of the Gods, about how the myths of ancient civilizations are really garbled accounts of visitations from extraterrestrials.  Can't wait to watch that.

So, that's how that one wended its way.

Anywhey...