BushwickBK.com: ok me: "seeing as how" should work for one BushwickBK.com: ok I'll pick a replacement me: nope BushwickBK.com: did you mean to use insomuch that many times? BushwickBK.com: most of them are easily debunkable BushwickBK.com: yeah at work we are bombarded by 9/11 shit BushwickBK.com: mmmmhm me: and I think he was hinting that I myself was a psychic vampire me: he also used to tell me about psychic vampires me: yeah, I got a guy who e-mails me 9/11 conspiracy items once a month or so me: or rather, non-physical vegetable matter that spanned the universe BushwickBK.com: wow BushwickBK.com: haha me: I've got another book about how people came from trees BushwickBK.com: my boss is an expert on debunking 9/11 theories me: yeah, this is basically a short version of a piece I'm writing for Skeptic BushwickBK.com: that is, making fun of it BushwickBK.com: illuminati stuff is always a good read BushwickBK.com: thanks man, I really like this one BushwickBK.com: maybe 2 weeks BushwickBK.com: I remember immediately after 9/11 me: again, if you study history you have to admit that conspiracies come up BushwickBK.com: or pentagon-missile crazies me: yep indeed BushwickBK.com: you're grouped in with LOOK AT THE SHADOWS ON THE PLANE! BushwickBK.com: if you go, heyyy, didn't they find several fo the alleged hijackers alive and practicing dentistry in saudi arabia and pakistan? me: but Jones, again, has to connect everything BushwickBK.com: right me: like cointelpro, etc. me: well, that would be in line with past counterintel modus operandi BushwickBK.com: he's a bit crazy for me BushwickBK.com: ih yeah? BushwickBK.com: to divert suspicion from the legit parts me: where he's a god BushwickBK.com: in fact, he thinks the crazier bits of the theories were thought up and planted by the govt me: I interviewed him back in Austin me: like Alex Jones me: yep BushwickBK.com: but all this other crazy shit makes those legitimately odd details fade into a mire of crazy BushwickBK.com: there may be ELEMENTS of govt involvement BushwickBK.com: haha BushwickBK.com: his favorite thing to say is, just because WTC3 wasn't a controlled demolition doesn't mean Cheney didn't know BushwickBK.com: and can now smack down every charge BushwickBK.com: my boss has gotten so annoyed by it all that he did tons of reading BushwickBK.com: yeah me: you work at antiwar? me: so what do you do over there at antiwar exactly? me: to some extent, yes me: you can plan all of this via thought experiment BushwickBK.com: is a system that has been cultivated BushwickBK.com: well, that the media checks with the pentagon first for everything me: you don't even have to set it up BushwickBK.com: apparently it's easy enough to set up a paradigm where the plebs keep themselves in check me: because a reporter is not going to risk sounding crazy by dwelling on something that's been painted as crazy BushwickBK.com: right me: the media will squash them themselves me: the CIA, etc. need not even squash those stories BushwickBK.com: I mean these stories were in msnbc, not some kook site me: because of the dynamics of the media BushwickBK.com: why is it still "15 of the 19 hijackers were saudi" BushwickBK.com: the guys are fucking alive, hello, where are they? BushwickBK.com: that story faded soemhow BushwickBK.com: they found several fo the alleged hijackers alive, because they called the media and went, uhhh yeah I'm alive n stuff? BushwickBK.com: this fucking company is the pits BushwickBK.com: I need a new server me: bk is down BushwickBK.com: wow BushwickBK.com: the problem is my boss is a complete e-luddite me: I've got to write a 70,000 word over the next two months while assisting with another book and writing for three other things BushwickBK.com: but I really hate it BushwickBK.com: I try not to dwell on it BushwickBK.com: I know, I know me: count your blessings BushwickBK.com: if I can make BBK work i can escape BushwickBK.com: it's boring and I hate the hours BushwickBK.com: choose whcihones from other publications we will link to, and edit our own pieces BushwickBK.com: wed-fri I edit the viewpoints BushwickBK.com: and also in theory keep an eye on the news all day so that i can put up breaking stories, but I'm a lazy fuck and my boss alerts me to news so i futz around BushwickBK.com: well mon-tue I approve all the news for the next day's page me: I'm going to go play my 4th century B.C. Diadochoi-era historical simulation game while I wait for the angry comments to accumulate, see you later; you should come by for coffee some time this week, I'm always around