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People are interested in Reptilians, Reptoids, and Reptiloids, no matter what you call them. Last weekend, I posted a thoughtful essay looking at the use of hypnosis in eyewitness investigations, entitled " Are Bigfoot Witnesses Really Seeing Reptoids? " Almost 10,000 people read it in the first 8 hours. Amazing reaction. So why are people so fascinated by the notion of Lizard People among us? Surely, folks can't consider there is any reality to this? Skepticism and critical thinking can't be dead, can it? I see that Nicholas Pell recently thought about this business in his posting, " The Odd Reptilian Theory and The People That Believe It ." Pell records an intriguing exchange with a friend of his. He was explaining the Reptilian hypothesis to a friend of his...then he was asked: “Who’s David Icke?” “Some weird British writer who thinks that Al Gore is a shape-shifting, blood-sucking reptile.” “How is he not?” I was stumped there. I suppose we'd find th...

From Afghanistan, President Barack Obama ended his speech delivered on Beltane to Americans with some intriguing imagery. In the context of all that happened on the day , it made complete symbolic   obelisk sense . (Italics below are my emphasis.) As we emerge from a decade of conflict abroad and economic crisis at home, it is time to renew America . An America where our children live free from fear, and have the skills to claim their dreams. A united America of grit and resilience, where sunlight glistens off soaring new towers in downtown Manhattan , and we build our future as one people, as one nation . Here, in Afghanistan, Americans answered the call to defend their fellow citizens and uphold human dignity. Today, we recall the fallen, and those who suffer wounds seen and unseen. But through dark days we have drawn strength from their example, and the ideals that have guided our nation and lit the world : a belief that all people are created equal, and deserve the freedom to...