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I’ve been, as I often am, energetically and fiercely conducting field research in the days and poring over books and documents at the reading table in the nights.  In order to conduct effective and efficient field research one needs the proper foot attire and for this month of March, 2013 I’ve determined that the above pictured Nike Ralstons are appropriate and adequate.

I will report again soon.

In the mean time I trust that a brief report from behind enemy lines in Obotopia will suffice:

1.    Fact bungler and homophile author Loren Collins has published a book (pictured above in my photograph) titled, Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation.  The book is published by Prometheus Books.  In the first paragraph of Chapter 1, or ‘Baloney Detection’, we find that Collins confidently and forcefully asserts that Ernest Hemingway said, in 1965, “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him.”

Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961 just a month or so before Barack Hussein Obama II was born at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya.

How could Ernest Hemingway have said anything in 1965 if he died in 1961?    How did an erroneous assertion like that end up on the same page in which the author harps on ‘founts of misinformation’, ‘unreliable’ information and on the first page of a chapter entitled ‘Baloney Detection’?

Moreover, after publication of the book it became overtly and abundantly clear that the homophile author, Loren Collins, had made the little mistake (misinformation, unreliable information or just plain baloney?) on page 15 of his book about finding facts in misinformation. Rather than admit that he made a small mistake on page 15 he chose to issue the following pubescent repudiation on January 20, 2013:

“While I admit the phrasing could have been better, the Hemingway quote is not a mistake. In fact, it’s even footnoted with the original source. It is indeed an authentic Hemingway quote, which was first published in The Atlantic magazine in 1965, in an article by Robert Manning titled “Hemingway in Cuba.” The fact that the article was the product of several years of interviews with Hemingway is what resulted in it being published posthumously. I attributed the quote to the date of publication, unaware that Hemingway had died in the interim. And Manning’s name appears per Chicago Style citation rules, because he’s the author of the article wherein the quote was published.”

Rather than admit he had indeed made a mistake (misinformation, lol) and find the humor in it as a confident and levelheaded person might do, and laugh at himself, Collins instead becomes atypically defensive and argues that the ‘quote is not a mistake’.

If I were to find a garland of lost diaries written by the great George Washington Carver (he died in 1943) and publish them in the year 2013 I would not expect to find conscientious and levelheaded writers quoting Carver by saying that ‘George Washington Carver said this in 2013.’  It just doesn’t make sense.

It seems that Loren Collins has serious issues with personal responsibility and owning up to mistakes. People often hide their mistakes from other people because they worry that they will think less of them once they’ve seen that they’ve messed up. But acknowledging your mistakes, apologizing for them, and then earnestly working to make things right almost always has the opposite effect – people respect you for it. There might still be consequences, of course, but people will appreciate your honesty. When you hide your mistakes, and they’re found out anyway, people lose their respect and their trust in you.

The more you refuse to acknowledge your mistakes, the more you create an alternate universe for yourself. This leads to a decreased ability to make good choices, as the information you’re using to do so is warped.

2.   Some of Dr. Conspiracy’s overzealous and seemingly mindless fans boys are encouraging Keven Wayne Davidson (Dr. Conspiracy) to file for a restraining order or other kind of legal protection against me because I drew a nude (?) robot (Obot) picture of his wife, Queen of the Obots, and listed her true, correct and complete legal name along with her date of birth on the same.

In my artistic pencil sketch rendering of Mrs. Conspiracy (Virginia Hutson Davidson) her torso consists of nothing more than an old hot water heater with cold (blue) and hot (red) water outlets as well as a pressure relief valve on the side which serves as an arm.  Moreover, I’m not certain what a nude robot is or what one should look like.

Was I the first person to publish Mrs. Conspiracy’s name and date of birth (and her address) online?  No, I wasn’t.   If she wasn’t a criminal I wouldn’t have found her:

State of South Carolina VS Virginia Hutson Davidson.

What did she do?  What law did she break?  Answer: 2485-Traffic / Operating or permitting operation of vehicle which is not registered and licensed.

Was it a criminal offense?  Answer: Yes.   Here is a screenshot of the ‘Criminal Traffic’ case.  Cause number D144826, filed 08.08.2008:

Here is a screenshot of her bio data, i.e, name, address, race, sex and date of birth:

She was ordered to pay, among other things, the following costs/fines:

$5.00 – SC Criminal Justice Academy Training.

$2.95 – Victim Services Asm:

She was also charged in, yet not convicted, a separate traffic case, cause number D144827, filed 08.12.2008: 2559-Traffic / Failure to maintain proof of insurance in motor vehicle (same penalty as 2472).  Disposition: Not Guilty Bench Trial.  Note that in the two screenshots below this particular case is not a ‘Criminal Traffic’ case like the above cited criminal traffic case but is instead listed as ‘Traffic’ (non-criminal) and also note that her race, ‘White’, is listed (whereas it is not listed in the above cited criminal traffic case):

Its all online and you can find it by searching for Virginia Davidson at http://www.spartanburgcounty.org/

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