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Celebrating 10 years of annoying people on RationalWiki.
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Did you know… that Scotland has been described as a "dark land overrun by homosexuals"?
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My work here
I have made 35,000 edits as of December 2020. I'm among the top-10 editors by number of edits (and highest in mainspace edits), but I do strive for quality.[1] I have been a moderator since 2017.
Mainspace pages created
- Adrenochrome
- Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia
- Argument by gibberish
- Josh Axe
- Behold a Pale Horse
- Blazing Saddles
- Cambridge Analytica
- Kyle Chapman
- Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica
- Civility
- Classical antiquity
- Roy Cohn
- College fraternity
- Consciousness of guilt
- Consumer Health Digest
- Coverup
- Crimes against humanity
- Bernard d'Abrera
- Daily Plane
- Deathbed conversion
- Tad Devine
- Jack Dorsey
- Eclectic medicine
- Encyclopedia of American Loons
- Epik
- Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Feces therapy
- Fire therapy
- Michael Flynn
- Rick Gates
- Great man theory
- Gossip Cop
- Britt Marie Hermes
- Hierarchy of evidence
- Michael Hughes
- Identity Evropa
- Images of Jesus
- International Fact-Checking Network
- Robert Jeffress
- Jason Kessler
- Libertarian paradise
- List of former heads of democratic countries charged with crimes
- Paul Manafort
- Eugene M. McCarthy
- Oath Keepers
- Paida lajin
- Precision Herbs
- Psychedelic drug
- QAnon
- QAnon map dissection (originally part of QAnon)
- Raw water
- George Santos
- Roger Stone
- Three Percenters
- Rex Tillerson
- Ignaz Trebitsch Lincoln
- Ultrasonic pest control (later moved to a section in audio woo)
- Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij
- Vomit therapy
- Water chlorination
- Water Cure
Complete revisions
Some major additions/revision I've made
- 2021 U.S. Capitol riot
- Alt-right glossary
- Appeal to nature
- Aristolochia
- Ballotpedia
- Cannabis (especially pre-merge from "Marijuana woo")
- Clinton body count
- Communist glossary
- The Daily Stormer
- Dr. Strangelove
- Fake news
- Herbal supplement
- Holocaust denial
- John Birch Society
- List of medicinal plants
- Lost Cause of the South
- Gavin McInnes
- National Enquirer
- Neoreactionary movement
- Naturopathy
- Originalism
- Singapore
- Unit 731
- Vitamin and mineral supplements (particularly the megavitamin section)
- WikiLeaks
Funspace pages created
The Devil made me do it.
Essay
Favorite Bible passages
- Revelation 21:8 — hot…
- Isaiah 32:5 — and hotter
- Romans 2:6-14 — why Nobs is headed straight to Hell
- Isaiah 30:26 — libtard
- 2 Kings 18:27 — therapy
- Ezekiel 23:20 — for prudes
- Acts 9:5 — aren't Biblical double entendres grand?
People I've pissed off in the line of duty
- Michael Coombs — he accused me of impersonation
- Abd ul-Rahman Lomax — he tried to dox me
- Eugene M. McCarthy — I wrote most of his page
- Rob Smith — battles lost, war won
Real-life brief encounters
- Philip Agee, CIA turncoat — saw him give a talk
- Alt-med
- Instructed to put my bloody knee in the sea in my youth[3] — that part of the sea also happened to be contaminated with PCBs as it turned out
- Saw a burn victim treated with toothpaste[4]
- Homeopathy — was given the sugar pills by an actual MD
- Chiropractor — got my neck cracked, wouldn't go again
- Saw a Himalayan bronze bowl applied directly to a traumatic brain injury patient's head ("sound healing")
- Amway — I knew two 'sales associates'.
- Animals:
- Archaeopteryx — saw a plaster cast of the Berlin specimen
- Endangered species in the wild, including the California condor,
Comanche Springs pupfish, mountain gorilla, Bornean orangutan, and the southern cassowary - Garra rufa fish — saw the fish nibbling customers' toes
- Lion — seen in the wild
- Lungfish — seen in a public aquarium
- Platypus — seen in the wild
- Primates — seen in the wild
- Anti-nuclear movement
- Cory Aquino, leader of the Philippines' People Power Revolution — saw her speak
- Area 51 outskirts
- Isaac Asimov — saw his lecture
- Bill Bailey,[5] one of the members of the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War — saw him speak
- Jello Biafra
- BitChute — seen in the wild, some old white man with a BitChute baseball cap who apparently makes a habit of harassing cashiers with written instructions on how to access his cray-cray BitChute posts
- Bohemian Grove — attended open house
- Boy Scouts of America — I was one.
- Jerry Brown
- Harold Camping — drove past his radio station before the End Times came
- Cannibalism — I knew someone who thought he unwittingly participated in mortuary cannibalism
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who was a major force in ending the legitimacy of scientific racism — saw his lecture
- Iris Chang — saw her give a book reading of
- Charles III — never met The Dude, but we both made minor contributions to the same book
- Noam Chomsky — saw him lecture on politics
- Crack — have seen people using it in a crack house
- Dada — saw a neo-Dada performance
- Charles Darwin — saw the actual finches that Darwin collected from the Galapagos
- Andrea Dworkin — saw her book reading her book The Rape of Nanking
- Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame — saw him driving around a couple of times, also he thanked me for wearing a business suit after we were among the arrestees at a direct action
- Erhard Seminars Training — I knew one person who went to the original EST once and was not impressed, also I know someone who was involved with the Landmark derivation.
- Felonies of people I've known:
- Arms smuggling — "only" bullets, convicted
- Child endangerment — at least twice, not caught
- Grand theft — the AT&T truck, convicted
- Illegal asbestos building tear-down with intentional undocumented worker exposure — not caught
- Insider trading — got rich, not charged
- Manslaughter — killed a man with a pool cue, convicted
- Rape
- Date rape — frat boy, not indicted
- Statutory rape — known two perps, not indicted
- Threatening a judge, convicted
- Vandalism — habitual, not caught
- The Firesign Theatre — reunion performance
- Games:
- Dungeons & Dragons — played it exactly once
- Game theory — had a college class on the topic, which included the Prisoner's dilemma
- Ouija board — in my misspent youth
- Tarot — have had it read to me
- Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, Naropa University and NAMBLA affiliate — saw his poetry reading
- Google headquarters — got an informal tour
- Greenpeace — visited their ship, The Rainbow Warrior
- Kamala Harris
- Heroin — saw someone shooting up on the street
- Hippies
- Holocaust survivors — I've met at least two, one who was hidden as an infant at a convent by his Jewish parents, and one who was an infant when his mother fled across Europe
- Home birth — I have attended one. The birther in question also lost at Vatican roulette. I think they may have eaten the placenta of one of their previous children.
- The Jerry Springer Show (not The Opera) — I knew two people who were guests on the show
- John Birch Society
- Ken Kesey, who participated in MKULTRA psychedelic drug experiments — saw him speak and held his hat made of hemp
- Naomi Klein — saw her speak on her The Shock Doctrine book tour
- Jaron Lanier, futurist/virtual reality pioneer — gifted him a musical instrument
- LaRouchies — saw there conspiracy-infested literature table on various sidewalks
- LessWrong follower — tee-shirt wearer spotted in the wild
- LSD was offered windowpane acid on the street once, but I haven't actually taken it
- William Mandel — who was a victim of and stood up to McCarthyism
- Benoit Mandelbrot, without whom we would not have fractal wrongness — saw his lecture
- Peter Mayhew, the guy who played Chewbacca in Star Wars — sat next to him on a plane
- Milky Way
- Joseph Mobutu — probably observed him at a distance fishing on a remote riverbank
- Kary Mullis, 'winner' of the Ig Nobel Prize
- Ralph Nader — saw his lecture
- Nudists
- Nina Paley of the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and later of Spinster.xyz
- Penn & Teller — saw their magic show (it sucked from nosebleed seats)
- PETA — have seen the on the street
- Plants:
- Aristolochia
- Betelnut
- Cannabis
- Canola oil
- Coca — chewed the leaf; cocaine — have been to both an active crack house and a formerd one
- Coffee
- Green tea
- Magic mushrooms
- Morning glory seeds
- Orchidaceae — seen in the wild
- Petrified forest
- Postmodernism — e.g., Yayoi Kusama exhibition, surrealist art exhibition, Picasso exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
- Punks
- Religions:
- 3HO
- Amish — saw a buggy going down the road
- Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum in Singapore
- Catholics — have been inside cathedrals, saw the Vatican's traveling art exhibition
- Church of the SubGenius — went to an official event and was deconverted
- Eucharist — have received both a Christian/non-Catholic eucharist (without having been baptized) and a heterodox Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence communion
- Greek Orthodox — had a childhood friend who belonged
- Hare Krishnas
- Hinduism — have been to Hindu temples
- Islam – have been inside mosques, both modest and grand
- Jehovah's Witnesses — they have bothered my door knocker
- Jews — have been to services, including two bat mitzvahs
- Jews for Jesus — saw their street pesterers
- Moonies — passed by on the street
- Mormons
- New Apostolic Reformation — have seen their "Appeal to Heaven" flag in the wild
- Ordo Templi Orientis followers — saw a rite that included flogging
- Presbyterians — was proselytized by
- Quakers — have attended meetings
- Rastafarians
- Saint John Coltrane Church — I have heard the radio broadcast by Reverend Wanika Stephens
- Satanists
- Scientology — have been outside one of their buildings
- Seventh-day Adventists pestered my door
- Traditionalist Catholicism — stayed at the house of a TradCath, where my now ex-inlaw, a mainline Catholic, had an exceedingly tedious theological argument
- Unitarians — have attended a service
- Unity Church (New Thought-derived)
- Universal Life Church — I became a priest way back when.
- Westboro Baptist Church members — was harassed by them at an AIDS walk
- Revolutionary Communist Party (US)
- Karl Rove – saw him in the Austin airport bookshop in 2010 making sure that his 608-page impacted turd of a memoir was perfectly arranged on the display stand, then counseling the cashier about her imperfect shelving
- Randy Schekman, before he won the Nobel Prize
- Roko's basilisk — no, not the actual beast, but someone in public wearing a t-shirt with that lettering — failed PUA, mindfuck, LessWronger, or just lame? I saw this at the same retail store as the sighting of the Bitchute guy but on a different day.
- Bobby Seale — saw his lecture; also saw fellow-Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver on the street
- Shaman, both old school and a neoshaman
- Harry Shearer, one of the voices on The Simpsons — saw him present his film about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, The Big Uneasy
- Valerie Solanas — I saw the first — and perhaps only — production of her play, Up Your Ass.
- Tax protesters
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen master — wasn't impressed by his mindfulness bell
- Traditional Chinese medicine — ate at the Imperial Restaurant in Singapore, which specializes in food with TCM. I had the memorable scorpions on toast.
- Trotskyites — saw one who actually had a Trotsky-style beard/mustache
- Trump — have made a pilgramage to his "Banker's Heart"
- Turing test — I was once given an impromptu test by text messaging. I eventually passed it, but then confessed to the tester that any bot could have scraped that answer from the internet.
- Uhuru House — currently a Russian front group
- Unidentified flying object — in the days before drones were common, I saw a light in the night sky that moved silently like a quadcopter does nowadays.
- Utah Phillips, a Wobbly — saw his performance
- Steve Wozniak of Apple Inc. — saw him driving around
- Yahoo — knew one of the first employees
- Yippies, including co-founder Paul Krassner, a phone phreak who got sent to prison for stealing an AT&T truck, and latter-day Yippies at a smoke-in
- Frank Zappa — performance
Oh, the places I have been!
- Australia
- Bermuda — apex of the Bermuda Triangle
- Brunei
- Costa Rica
- Canada
- England
- France
- Guam
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Morocco
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Singapore
- Spain — I saw Gibraltar from there
- United States — most states, and some parks:
- Grand Canyon
- Hell, well Bumpass Hell anyway
- Mount Shasta (vicinity)
- Yellowstone
- ex-Zaïre (Democratic Republic of the Congo)