What Comes First–the Cover-up or the Conspiracy?

Uncork the Saurian brandy and break out the Romulan Ale–we may be on the verge of once and for all finding out whether or not we are the sole inhabitants of the universe. According to a recently published New York Times op-ed written by the former United States Senator Harry Reid, our government is perhaps ready to come clean on what it knows about U.F.O.s. A report on the matter requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee may be made public as early as this June.

As to what came first the cover-up or the conspiracy, I once believed that our government was fully aware of what was happening in the skies above and that the lack of public disclosure by the military and our elected officials stoked the fires of countless conspiracies. But after listening to the conspiratorial crap being slung about by the QAnon crowd and that twenty percent of the U.S. population buy into these very dangerous lies–I now believe that what may appear to be ill-conceived cover-ups by the government is simply just good public policy. Because based upon our inability to deal with our terrestrial truth–it might remain wise to elude those extraterrestrial possibilities a bit longer!

Join us as we continue the discussion about those extraterrestrial possibilities on our podcast @ Sit Downs and Sessions.

Posted by: Chris Poh

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The Unmasking of America

I find it incredibly ironic that so many of those who balk at the idea of wearing a mask because of some perceived threat to personal freedom have no problem blindly doing someone else’s bidding from under the brim of a red baseball cap or from behind the muzzle of an AR-15. Personally, I can think of no greater threat to individual liberty than following those who mask their insatiable need for power and profits behind some bogus brand of patriotism wrapped in the American flag!

If nothing else, the last four years have brought about the unmasking of the remnants of those old demons that still threaten our democracy. Thankfully that threat has been met with the unleashed energies of our better angels. But whether our country chooses a blue tsunami, another red tide, or just a bit of mixed surf during the course of this year’s election, it will be for naught unless we dedicate ourselves to national healing and bringing about social and economic justice to every citizen and immigrant that still believes in America’s promise.

In June of 1863, Robert E. Lee once again pushed his army northward in his second attempt to bring the fight to Union soil. The journey that would eventually end on the hills and fields surrounding Gettysburg would pass over some of the same ground lost during the previous year’s carnage at Antietam. The war-weary marchers would temper their rebellious tendencies as they gazed upon the unburied bleached bones without knowing if the fallen were friend or foe–no blue, no gray, no North, no South–just the unmasked remains of a house divided.

Hopefully, this time around we will choose civil discourse over civil war!

Listen to our political prognostications and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election at Sit Downs and Sessions

Posted by: Chris Poh for American Public House Review