Don’t forget, contracts were so important to the Founders that they were enshrined in the Constitution:

Uh, not a U.S. Supreme Court judge. A New York state judge. New York state trial courts are called “Supreme Courts” (even though they are actually the lowest courts in NY, not the highest as you might think given the word “Supreme”).

Can someone give this memo to the US Patent Office? They still have a filing system that requires Java, and don't seem interested in changing it. It may literally be impossible to file patent applications online soon.

Wilson actually wrote plenty of serious non-fiction, as well, meant to discuss his philosophy a more matter of factly, instead of relying on Operation Mindfuck all the time.

Praise Bob!

I was introduced to the Church of the Subgenius around 1988 by a Wiccan friend. She said, "Yeah, I know you're an atheist, a skeptic and all that but, this stuff is funny as hell!"

This was my immediate thought. The Church of the Subgenius. It is terrible that it is not listed here because I think it belongs at the top of the list. And I say this as former unofficial "Master-Pope and Pope of Central Michigan University and All of Oil City".

Damn, I had no idea that a thing like Historia Discordia was in the makings. Ordered.

During my freshman year in college a former HS friend mailed me a piece of paper that had Bob's image replicated all over it. It was in red ink and was serrated into tiny stamp-sized sections. I thought it was a weird thing. I gave it to some guy in the dorm who thought it was cool. Turned out to be a bunch of hits of…

I guess this is probably a generational thing, but I always found the Church of the Subgenius funnier.

Great article!

D&D was a bit before my time (at least the demonic craze) but I experienced the same thing when Magic: The Gathering came out. Some churches around my hometown strongly opposed the game because it had 'black magic' (swamps). :eyeroll:

Ah the times before the internet came along and gave…

It was never a fair fight between fundamentalist Christianity and D&D. One was a dangerous system full of dark mysticism and threats to warp a young mind beyond repair, and the other was a tabletop RPG.

You are totally right. I begged and I mean BEGGED for Voltron and Transformers toys growing up. I was told no over and over. Only after some article reported that they were good for spatial development did my parents condescend to buy me one measly Voltron Lion (damn then for not having the black lion to this day!)…

The problem (from the marketing execs' perspectives) is that even if girls want these toys, their parents are often reluctant to buy them, and extended family like grandparents would never even imagine the possibility of buying them. Kind of like how my parents refused to buy me a She-Ra action figure when I was 6 or…

It always amazes me the complete and utter idiocy of executives, in any industry. You can make the world a better place and make shitloads of money. You can give girls and boys something to strive for, and make shitloads of money. But being an ignorant asshole, especially in the entertainment industry, only shoots…

I know there is a lot to complain about, but it amazes that we get anything watchable considering how useless most dirtbag execs are. They try to hide their prejudices and biases behind pseudo-analysis and jargon and you get garbage like what is going on at Cartoon Network. Hopefully if they are called out enough that…