Illumination Day

42 years ago today, I finally got my hands on the last volume of the Illuminatus! trilogy and read it. Like the authors, I knew that half of it was BS, but I wasn’t sure exactly which half. One part that was true was that it programmed me in ways that weren’t obvious for months or even years, and unlike W.C. Fields and the woman who drove him to drink, I thanked the authors for it.

“The Russian roulette of jelly beans”

A short history of gross and extreme candy

Thanx to conuly

The perils of passing for normal

Aspie Burnout

Question

Is my boyfriend secretly using my sex toys? (NWS, of course). As Marsha Warfield would say, this is not gross; it is important.

What’s important

Television President held to higher standards than the real one

“Compromise”

Stephen Colbert replies to Putin’s stooge’s stooge