Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time
A glittering collection of quotes on the elusive nature of time by a wide variety of thinkers, from William Shakespeare to Lenny Bruce.
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Truth: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
A quaint tale of manipulators being manipulated.
Is US Effort to Block Oswald Friend and his “Revelations” Another Deception?
Ernst Titovets, a Soviet-era friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, is being blocked by the US government from visiting Dallas for a lecture on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death. Strange, because what the man has to say fundamentally supports the US establishment’s preferred line on Oswald—that he was just a man on his own—hence not working for intelligence service. So why block such a cooperative figure? Is it crazy to wonder whether this is actually designed to draw further attention to what Titovets has to say?
FBI War on Boston Witnesses
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is accused of harassing friends of Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen immigrant who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida, under unexplained circumstances during a late-night interrogation five months ago. Todashev was a friend of one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Two more friends are now behind bars in what advocates say is part of a campaign of intimidation. Just why this is happening remains unclear.
JFK in His Own Words: A Selective Sampler from His Speeches
Excerpts of some JFK speeches you may not have heard, showing his wit and his perception.
WhoWhatWhy’s Douglas Lucas on Leaked Private Intel Emails
Video: WhoWhatWhy reporter Douglas Lucas explains about leaked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, and the prison sentence given to hacktivist Jeremy Hammond
Is This About You?
Odds are you think of yourself as a skeptic or you wouldn’t be visiting WhoWhatWhy in the first place. Skepticism defines our journalism. It has defined quite a few other people, too…
A Valentine from WhoWhatWhy
We at WhoWhatWhy are skeptical of just about everything—and that includes the red satin trappings of St. Valentine’s Day and the more gaseous expressions of love that may or may not mean anything. So, on this day, we thought you might find it refreshing to learn how the Sumerians expressed this feeling. They made […]
Insights from the Counterculture, Part 1: Hunter S. Thompson
Quotes by leading writers of the Counterculture. First up? The legendary Hunter S. Thompson. Here’s a sample of his viewpoint: “Rush Limbaugh… is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival—the freaks who bite the heads off chickens—but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.”
Insights from the Counterculture, Part 2: Ken Kesey
Quotes by leading writers of the Counterculture.
Insights from the Counterculture, Part 3: Abbie Hoffman
Our series of collected quotes from leading writers of the Counterculture. Now, the words of Abbie Hoffman…
Insights from the Counterculture, Part 5: Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller’s words and wisdom; our series of collected quotes from leading writers of the Counterculture continues.