Doctor Jones ruminates...

My annual re-post of one of my more popular blogs. "Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained?  Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?" – Michael Dorris  Ah, our lovely annual turkey day celebration of one of the greatest ethnic cleansings in all of human history (caveat:  by genocide, I refer not to population decimation by disease which was not deliberate save the single extant example of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces during the French-Indian War [and the image of U.S. Cavalry doing the same originates in Ward Churchill’s spurious scholarship and has been exposed as deceit], although the decimation wrought by disease was what informed Manifest Destiny ), but instead the long history of exterminationist and a...

I should share that I cling to aspects of my former fundamentalist Christian faith and highly admire Jesus Christ (and his philosophy and moral teachings) and all true Christians. A message of truly unconditional love; of pacifistic love for not only one's neighbor but one's enemies; of divine judgment but of earthly non-judgment of God's children by each other; of condemnation of outward religious displays, piety, and hypocrisy; and of the triumph of the meek and poor is one that I embrace. I'm not anti-Christmas or anti-Christianity , just annoyed by those whom I think have perverted the message of Christ to suit their own ends. Please note what I'm NOT saying (I'm not saying that Christ's birthday is something that his followers should not celebrate). The "War" on Christmas Complaints regarding "the secular War on Christmas,” “the spiritual adulter...

Many conspiracy theories surround the events of September 11, 2001 . Some are more plausible than others, but most seem far too fantastical and outlandish for belief by any educated and reasonable person. Most would logistically and logically require too much to be believable and smack of borderline psychotic paranoia.  For instance, the cultish Alex Jones Infowars/PrisonPlanet/911 Truther  folks have repeated the teme ( ad nauseum, ad infinitum, or proof by assertion or argument by repetition ) that a plane never hit the Pentagon (or that passenger lists for the planes involved on 9/11 do not exist; see blog comments there for my debunking of that claim and provision of said lists).   Of course the same people also claimed the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center were a controlled demolition using thermite explosives amongst a host of other crazy notions without credible evidence.   The whole host of crazy ideas that Alex Jones’s cu...