The Progressive, a monthly mag that makes Howard Zinn’s diary look like an Enron power point presentation, is throwing a hissy fit this month over InfraGard, the Cleveland-based non profit that links businesses and private individuals with the FBI. The goal is for those private citizens, usually from the technology sector, to help fight terrorism, and maybe get laid more than twice a year.
The Progressive article claims the practice is a new way for the FBI to extend its reach into the private sector. But for men living in their grandparents’ basement, InfraGard is the coolest conspiracy club around. …
This article appears in Feb 6-12, 2008.
“…secret decoder rings, invisible ink, and fake mustaches.”
2 words: “Archie McPhee.” (Which I was introduced to by a staff member of Scene when it still WAS Scene and staffed by cool persons of a non-assholesque persuasion.)