by Daniel Walker | Mar 12, 2017
PIZZAGATE, SATANIC PANIC, AND THE NEW POLITICAL CAPITAL OF CRAZY I used to think the Satanic Panic was ancient history and conspiracy theories were funny. Then came 2016, Pizzagate, and Trump, and now nothing’s funny anymore. When I talk about religious zealots,...
by Daniel Walker | Mar 5, 2017
WITCHES BINDING TRUMP AREN’T SATANISTS, BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER Nine days ago, thousands of witches, pagans, magicians, and other magically inclined people cast a spell of binding on Donald Trump. Even though this was a pagan thing rather than a Satanic...
by Daniel Walker | Feb 19, 2017
HOW SOCIETY RACIALLY PROFILES THE DEVIL It’s February, but some things about black history probably just won’t come up during Black History Month. For example, we rarely talk about the centuries that black people spent having to be the devil. Back in 2013,...
by Daniel Walker | Feb 12, 2017
WHY ZEALOTS HATE DARWIN AS MUCH AS SATAN It’s Charles Darwin’s 208th birthday today. And if there’s one name the crazies hate more than Satan, it’s Darwin. When Henry Drummond arrives in town to argue Darwinian theory in Inherit the Wind (a 1955 play about the...
by Daniel Walker | Jan 29, 2017
SIX REASONS WE’RE BURNING DONALD TRUMP In a few days, we’re gathering in a mildly top secret Bay Area location to burn Donald Trump in effigy. February 1 is Imbolc Night, a date for pagan fire festivals. And it borders on Candlemas, which conspiracy assholes...
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