The Lippard Blog

In the March 21st, 2021 Washington Post story "The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists," Annie ...

 In the 1980s, Trump was concerned about nuclear proliferation and thought that he could do a better job negotiating a nuclear deal with the...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2020. Nicholson Baker, Baseless: My Search for Secre...

I received the following spam email today (a link on the email claims, falsely, that I opted in for it in October 2013) from the Christine J...

Here's a famous photograph of pulp fiction author and Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard holding a tomato plant connected to an E-Meter....

Yesterday I received an email that contained yet another argument that Obama's birth certificate (the PDF'd scan of the "long f...

Former Arizona State Representative Pamela Gorman, whose promo video proudly proclaims her to be a gun-toting Bible thumper, spent some of ...

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars points out an account of a 15-year-old kidnapped from his grandmother's house at the requ...

Two ex-employees of Diskeeper Corporation have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court after being fired, charging that the company ma...

If there was any doubt that the SkyMall catalog is full of bogus products that are complete ripoffs for idiots, that should be removed by th...

Kat and I attended Alan Korwin's Bill of Rights celebration, celebrating the 217th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, which was held thi...

The case of Philip J. Berg v. Barack Hussein Obama, filed in the eastern district of Pennsylvania in an attempt to argue that Obama cannot b...

Last night at a party, a few of us were discussing some recent self-published books by crackpots that we've seen or had pushed on us. W...

Conspiracy theorists like to make arguments of the form "A is linked to B, B is linked to C, therefore A and C are in cahoots," wh...

The latest ApostAZ podcast is out: Episode 007 Atheism and Freethought in Phoenix- Go to atheists.meetup.com/157 for group events! Monthl...

The Presidential Prayer Team has called for supporters to "Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the defi...

Blair Gadsby, a 45-year-old adjunct religious studies professor at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, has gone on hunger strike until John ...

Last night I attended an event at which one of the attendees promoted "Zeitgeist: The Movie." I was prompted to finally watch thi...