The Metropolitan Museum’s New Logo has whale tails in the Es.

The sovereign citizens movement is a far-right anti-government extremist movement in the US that believes the government — at all levels, local, state, and federal — is illegitimate and has enslaved the American people.

Their belief system is complex and rooted in a series of bizarre conspiracy theories that hold that the original US government set up by the Founding Fathers has been replaced with an evil secret government that has sold all US citizens into slavery by using them as collateral against foreign debt.

As explained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, they believe the government creates a secret alternate identity for each American at birth and sets up a secret US Treasury account — sort of like a corporate "trust" — under that alternate identity. The US government funds these "corporate shell" accounts to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

Why does your generics support suck so bad?

A tangled tale of a frame-up by graduates of elite law schools over a stray comment about their kid.

It's one of the dark marks of the U.S. Government in the 20th century — a complete willingness to expose unwitting citizens to dangerous substances in the name of scientific advancement. It happened with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, with the MKUltra mind control project and with the atomic bomb testing of the 1940s and 50s. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) knew that dangerous levels of fallout were being pumped into the atmosphere, but didn't bother to tell anyone. Well, anyone except the photographic film industry, that is.

I was thinking the other week, when this app started making the rounds, about how our little town would probably not be on anyone's nuclear bomb target list. Turns out that's probably still true. Instead of the town being a target, a spot two miles up the road from our house is likely to be one.

Ask Pittsboro Mayor Chuck Devinney what he did when he worked for AT&T, and he offers evasions straight out of an X-Files script. "I wiped it all out of my head," he says. "When I went out the door, I never looked back."

Coming from a public utility employee turned small-town public official, that might sound pretty melodramatic. Unless, that is, the door walked out of was the secured gateway to Chatham County's underground enigma, the Big Hole. That's where Devinney and dozens of other AT&T employees holed up for much of the Cold War, soldiers in a hidden battle to safeguard a U.S. command and control system in the event of nuclear war.

The system, called the Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON), was put in service in 1964 by the Defense Communications Agency; the Chatham facility came on-line in 1966. About 60 AUTOVON relay and switching centers were built across the country. Of those, 20 sites, including Big Hole, were underground, hardened facilities, engineered to withstand anything but a direct hit by an enemy missile. AT&T won the classified contract to operate domestic AUTOVON centers, while the U.S. military manned those established in other countries.

Do we really have to talk about Marco Rubio for a whole week?

He came in third.

Sales of old music have overtaken sales of new music in the US - at least when it comes to physical media (vinyl, CDs, wax cylinders, etc.). New releases outsell old for digital music, though just barely: 52.5M vs 50.9M.

"Old" means it was released more than 18 months ago.

Cool people do Favorite Albums Lists, too.

On and on & on and on.

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Peter Gabriel 1986 So Score: 460 W/L/T: 9 / 9 / 0

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Sonic Youth 1987 Sister Score: 469 W/L/T: 10 / 8 / 1

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Talking Heads 1983 Speaking in Tongues Score: 473 W/L/T: 13 / 11 / 0

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Sonic Youth 1988 Daydream Nation Score: 478 W/L/T: 9 / 11 / 0

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Fleetwood Mac 1968 Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Score: 478 W/L/T: 13 / 10 / 1

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Sea And Cake 1994 Sea And Cake Score: 481 W/L/T: 8 / 8 / 0

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David Bowie 1972 Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars Score: 481 W/L/T: 9 / 6 / 0

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Fleetwood Mac 1977 Rumors Score: 487 W/L/T: 7 / 8 / 1

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Black Sabbath 1970 Black Sabbath Score: 512 W/L/T: 8 / 6 / 3

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The Shins 2003 Chutes Too Narrow Score: 514 W/L/T: 11 / 6 / 5

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Erykah Badu 2000 Momma's Gun Score: 514 W/L/T: 14 / 9 / 2

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Pink Floyd 1973 Dark Side Of The Moon Score: 515 W/L/T: 8 / 6 / 2

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Cowboy Junkies 1988 The Trinity Session Score: 516 W/L/T: 13 / 9 / 3

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Black Sabbath 1971 Paranoid Score: 537 W/L/T: 11 / 7 / 1

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David Bowie 1971 Hunky Dory Score: 539 W/L/T: 10 / 5 / 1

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The Colorblind James Experience 1987 The Colorblind James Experience Score: 539 W/L/T: 9 / 6 / 0

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Erykah Badu 1997 Baduzium Score: 543 W/L/T: 10 / 5 / 1

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Rolling Stones 1978 Some Girls Score: 558 W/L/T: 14 / 7 / 1

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The Internet 2015 Ego Death Score: 565 W/L/T: 10 / 7 / 0