The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Preposterous Nature of “Reality” Edward J. Curtin, Jr.     It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere.  Thoughts that think us.  To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.  For me, these unbidden guests usually visit me when I am out walking or lying in bed right before sleep. Recently, as I was again walking across the meandering Housatonic River through the covered wooden bridge in Sheffield, Massachusetts, I found myself waylaid by the thought of the word “preposterous,” which is usually understood to mean absurd, very silly, or foolish.  Being happily eccentric and language obsessed, I thought of its etymology, which from the Latin means before-behind or before-after, which makes preposterous an absurd, nonsense word itself, which seemed appropriate to thoughts that were approaching me from the other side as I walked ass-backwards (my behind behind me) toward them. 

  The Day The Earth Stands Still Project Blue Beam and stranger things to come. Good Citizen Holograms over cities to fake an alien invasion and terrorize the masses. Note to Good Citizens: I began preparing this post a year ago. I decided against publishing until this particular psyop went to the next level. I never thought it would happen so soon. A Heaping Pile For over half a century the U.S. government wouldn’t touch the topic of UFOs or aliens with a ten-thousand-light-year pole. Everything was denied, classified, redacted, memory-holed, and almost nothing was ever commented on. Perhaps it was intentional to propagate the legend and let imaginations and popular culture run wild. Now like a teenage cheerleader who just had her first kiss with the starting varsity quarterback, the government suddenly can’t shut up about UFOs or aliens. Documents and video footage have been released over the past few years in unprecedented numbers. From those 2004 Tic-Tac-looking UFOs recorded by Na