As an example of a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between perspectives, let’s look at the popular conspiracy theory about “Satanic mind control in Hollywood.” Besides a seemingly endless stream of YouTube

Once in a while, a customer manages to get all the way under my skin. That is when the blood and guts starts to fly. I am a visceral sort

Friday, late November. Morning shift. In comes an asthmatic wheezing woman with her face covered. She moves quickly to the back, out of the line of my sight. She is

Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory “Consequently a necessary step for most of us in the work of renouncing This World is to become aware of it as an engineered control system.

“In the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon

On my wife’s suggestion, I called up one of our employees at the thrift store, K.D., a natural healer with some psychic abilities. I gave her Ken’s name and his

November 9th, 2016: the day following the accident. I called the police in the evening and spoke to the officer in charge, the same one who had taken down my

People who know me—and even people who don’t—have commented on how I have become softer, more relaxed and open over the past few years. I have credited this change to

 The Life & Loves of a Failed Misanthrope # 2 Drummer Bob came in again yesterday. I noticed he had shaved. He said, “At least it’s not raining” in his