Monthly Archives: December 2010

The occasional open thread – December 2010

So what’s on YOUR mind?

Posted in Open Mike | 452 Comments

Miss Tickly makes big deal over seal

Internet blogger Miss Tickly has been pursuing the State of Hawaii, and has obtained a copy of the seal of the State Department of Health. She makes a big deal of the fact that it doesn’t look like the seal … Continue reading

Posted in Birth Certificate | Tagged , | 122 Comments

Blogger claims birth announcements altered

An Internet blogger writing under the name ladysforest has collected various copies of the Honolulu Advertiser announcements of Barack Obama’s birth and compared them. Some of the images are in better condition than others, and some have scratches. The research … Continue reading

Posted in Misc. Conspiracies, Old News, The Blogs | Tagged | 27 Comments

Another appeal filed

Has another birther been handed his hat by the federal courts and doesn’t know when to quit? Not this time. The appellant is none other than your own Dr. Conspiracy. Today I received a response to my Freedom of Information … Continue reading

Posted in FOIA | Tagged | 564 Comments

American Journalism Review article on the media and fringe movements

An article by Paul Farhi in the American Journalism Review, From the Fringe to the Mainstream, explores the role of the media in the rise to fame of fringe players such as Orly Taitz. Farhi asks: Why does a crank … Continue reading

Posted in Media | 29 Comments

Obama original birth certificate now on Wikileaks!

No, not really. I’ve been thinking about writing that Wikileaks had the Obama birth certificate as a spoof article, but it seems someone has beaten me to the punch. What I really wanted say briefly in this article is that … Continue reading

Posted in Wild & Wacky | Tagged | 10 Comments