To Insanity and Beyond!

If I could do one thing in my life over, it would be to double down on purchasing stock in aluminum foil manufacturers. Not just because this is the time of year that here in the western world we see a lot more baking going on but I’ll give you partial credit for that answer.

In my lifetime (sixty-five years and change) I have witnessed an expansion of the Tin Foil Hat Brigade beyond anything even the Book of Revelations could have foreseen. And in recent days, just under the radar of actual news reporting, or as #Pantload45 calls it ‘fake news,’ we have “Mad” Mike Hughes leading me to wonder if there’s a bigger difference between pearl and peyote buttons on your shirt than modern science has previously been honest and comfortable in admitting (and how hard are the former to chew and swallow).

I love this guy’s story, back, front, and sides. This is the tale of a classic underdog with his steam-powered scrap metal rocket (and motorhome) struggling against all odds to prove the idiotic stupidity he has turned into his crusade is neither the former nor the latter when it’s actually both.

I cannot read enough of this stuff. The original Kickstarter, aiming for $150,000.00, raised $350.00. And yet undeterred Mad Mike seeks to go where angels fear to tread though technically in a ‘flat-earth’ worldview I'm not actually clear where Heaven is located unless it’s somewhere beyond the sea ice holding the world’s oceans in place around our flat disc of a planet (and good job! by the way).      

With the calm uncertainty of a somnambulist, Mikey continues to persist in lifting the veil of deception from our eyes, ears, nose, and probably throat. Still thinking of the Earth as an orb? Bam! “John Glenn and Neil Armstrong are Freemasons,” Hughes agreed. “Once you understand that, you understand the roots of the deception.”  Okie-dokie, artichokie.    

I still think the Mojave Desert is the wrong locale for this when/IF it is to ever happen. If you’re gonna spike the ball on centuries of science and exploration, I think the place in space to do it is Columbus, Ohio, and come to think of it, when is Mad Mike's birthday anyway? I sense an opportunity to swap out one Monday holiday for another.

-bill kenny