By Peter Jamison
It's an open secret that not much changes with the advent of a new year. Resolutions or no, most of us wake up on Jan. 1 with the same reluctance to exercise, 3 p.m. caffeine cravings, and freight of interpersonal neuroses that haunted us on Dec. 31. The same can be said of people's political convictions, and anyone out shopping for organic Brie and not-so-bargain bubbly in San Francisco on New Year's Eve could see that the ravings of Lyndon LaRouche (pictured below) are here
An e-mail promoting a festival of 9/11 Truther conspiracy theory films was sent today to perhaps hundreds of members of the Bay Area media by one of the city's most respected cinematic promoters, Karen Larsen of Larsen Associates. On the e-missive, a surprising number of respected Bay Area institutions were listed as "supporters" of the 9/11 Film Festival -- and SF Weekly's calls to several of these institutions revealed that they, too, were surprised to be listed as supporters.
Click on this image for a larger versionLast week, we ever-so-slightly spat out some of our coffee when we noticed an interconnected conspiracy theory chart a la Lyndon LaRouche in our rival publication, the Bay Guardian. The graphic purported to reveal the vast cabal squelching progressive thought and action worldwide -- and it certainly does reveal something. While it's far from zany to point out that wealthy conservatives have many fishing poles in many ponds, once you start interco
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