Fear and Loathing on the Internet

Be afraid. But not too afraid.

The Kings Who Rule in Shadow

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman, 1720

My last entry dealt with ideas that many might find offensive. Some of the conspiracy theories described have verifiable death tolls, and yet I presented them with no disclaimer to remind my audience that these …