Tweet of the Day, Outback Is Actually Controlled By The Gnomes of Zurich edition.

There’s a lot of third-hands on this one: that link leads to a People article that references a tweet by a random Commie who is apparently convinced that Outback Restaurants are tools of the Bavarian Illuminati because you can draw five-pointed stars on Google Maps.  Because that’s the world we live in, now.  Ah, clickbait:

Still, Steve Jackson Games’ Illuminati is excellent.

Group seed: Doc R.C. Mason’s All-Seeing Eyes Family Opticians.

Blame this.

Doc R.C. Mason’s All-Seeing Eyes Family Opticians

Yes, it’s supposed to be that obvious.  Let anti-Illuminati investigators obsess over the company all they like; its corporate structure and staff are both relentlessly mundane. True, it took a little doing to find an ambitious optician with entrepreneurial sense and the right kind of humor, and then quietly encourage her to express both without her ever realizing – but when you have the resources of the world at your fingertips, you can get the outcomes that you want. And apparently be a little whimsical about it, too.

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New short-short-short: the inevitable Illuminati/#PokemonGo crossover.

Just… Don’t Play it in the Streets, OK?

“I must say, Grand Exalted Sister of the North, it worked.  It worked most entertainingly well.”

“Yes… yes. With this new game, the Masses are wandering around outside EVERYWHERE. They’re EXERCISING! Some of them are even TALKING to people!  They dance to our whim!  Dance, I say!” Continue reading New short-short-short: the inevitable Illuminati/#PokemonGo crossover.

Mrs. Knowles-Carter is NOT a member of the Illuminati. #nttawwt

Scurrilous rumors to the contrary.

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