Weekend Reading--Print it out and read it on the commute

No doubt about it, Bill Whittle's essay "Seeing the Unseen, Part 2" is a keeper. He lays into conspiracy theorists with the kind of entirely appropriate righteous fury I'm abashed I haven't bothered to stoke up myself.

Smart guy, that Whittle. I suppose I should point out that there's a flaw in his logic, and that's that if millions of ordinary people can be convinced to believe awful things, they can also be convinced to do awful things. I am every bit of contemptuous of 9-11 truthers as I am of the Loch Ness Monster, but I also know that in Nazi Germany millions of ordinary people were actually part of a sinister governmental machine to exterminate a race of people. It was a conspiracy, one that consumed an entire nation. In this case, the nuts are on the other side, trying to prove the conspiracy never existed.

So, just a cautionary caveat to a great essay. Go enjoy it.