The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
As you know, our Code of Conduct prohibits the discussion of "99 percent of conspiracy theories."
But!
Mathematicians will note the implication: One percent of them are allowed! But which ones, I wonder? Just for today, let's play a little game. Do you ever have a sneaking suspicion that one of those really whacked-out conspiracy theories no right-thinking person is supposed to embrace just may be true? Why?
The contributor who makes the most compelling and lucid defense of the most ostensibly totally lunatic conspiracy theory will win today's Ricochet Gold Medal. It's just glory, but heck, it's a lot of glory. To get yourself in the mood you will want to begin by asking: Does Claire actually know in advance who the winner will be? Why is she asking this? Cui bono?
Don't get too excited about this game though. Only one percent will make the qualifying round, and once this discussion's over, it's over--except for the lucky winner.
I'll begin. Look, people: A plane carrying the Polish president, the chief of the General Staff, the most senior figures in the Polish military and intelligence services, the president of the National Bank of Poland, the deputy foreign minister, twelve members of the Polish parliament, and senior members of the Polish clergy crashes because of "fog" on the way to a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, killing all on board. There are gaps in the black box tapes, Polish pilots say the transcript makes no sense, and the air traffic controller in question has mysteriously disappeared. Do you seriously want me to take Vladimir Putin's word for it that there's nothing fishy about this? Seriously?
Right, I got that out of my system. (As did Diana West, today.) I feel much better. Occam's Razor, come back! All is forgiven!
Your turn.
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Re: The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
Wow. I am getting a lot of e-mail in Polish. Apparently we are not the only people reading this thread. I wish I understood what they were saying to me.
Re: The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
Well, this one is true.
Re: The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
I love this conversation. But does it make me a nutjob that I actually believe there's something fishy about this whole Polish president dying in a plane crash thing? I mean, all kidding aside. There's something....I don't know. Add it up: Polish president; Vladimir Putin; missile defense; oil pipelines....
Jun '10
Re: The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and other times it is an exploding gag, designed to do more than get your face blackened. I wonder what Obama sees in Putin's eyes?
May '10
Re: The Conspiracy Game: Get it Out of Your System While the Offer Lasts
Yeah sure Rob, pretent that: Castro, JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis, a commie assassin who lived in Russia and visited Castro's lackies, and an 'intensive' 3 day FBI investigation...doesn't qualify as "something". I want my gold medal.