Random Thoughts:
A Collection of Irreverent Ideas by David Thomas*

This is a gathering of bits of, uh, information and commentary that didn't and probably won't fit anywhere else. Some of the material may be a bit irreverent, and there is no pattern or theme at work here that we know about. Random stuff happens.

Shit flew at random. Random ducked, and it hit the king, square in the face. - Old English, anon.

Each of them tacitly claims that 'the truth' has already been revealed, and that the heretic, if he is not simply a fool, is secretly aware of 'the truth' and merely resists it out of selfish motives. - George Orwell on Catholics and Communists, 1945-46

Random knew the difference.

An Offering Up of the Contents

• The Lincoln Putsch: America's Bolshevik Revolution, by George McDaniel
  A little known side of German involvement in the shaping of America.
  
  
• Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881-1965: A Historical Review, by Kevin MacDonald
  The reasons for the changing of the face of America. A scholarly examination of an amazing perseverance that led to the opening of this country's borders to a flood of immigrants with very little control over the numbers or source.
  
  
• Fear, by various authors
  The thing that troubles us all.
  
  
• Why I Do Not Like Cussing Contests, by H. Keller
  A less than complimentary look at Usenet newsgroup alt.revisionism.
  
  
• Hit the Road Before It Hits You, Anonymous
  The Far Side meets the Net -- or maybe it is the Net.
  
  
• Watch Your Mouth!
  It's a real jungle out there in cyberspace, but America On-line aims to keep it clean.
  
  
• Hatred Often Lurks in the Shadows of Mania, by Julian Lieb
  In the former Soviet Union, it was decided by applying a certain sort of officially sanctioned logic that anyone who could not appreciate the goodness and grandeur of the political system there was a priori insane and eligible for confinement in a state asylum. Nightmare stuff from days of old, right? Read this and feel a bit disturbed at the proximity of something you thought gone.
  
  
• An Alternative: Criminalize Bigotry, by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzalez
  Dovetails nicely into the niche carved by the piece above.
  
  
• Striped Fever
  A poem for our times
  
  
• Do As I Say, Not As I Do
  The old double standard at work, proving once again that there's good hate and bad hate, and that bigotry is already selectively criminalized.

* Note: David Thomas was not the first, but was the most important Webmaster of CODOHWeb throughout its formative years.  Mr. Thomas spent many long hours going where no man had gone before.  We are forever grateful for his hard work and dedication in an otherwise thankless and payless position.  I am grateful for having had the opportunity to meet him.  I remember how he was taken with observing the moons of Jupiter on his new hand-held telescope.