Oh, the weird coincidences

Over on the “Washington Monthly”:http://washingtonmonthly.com/ site, Hilzoy, “in talking about some crazy conspiracy theorist stuff about Obama over at The National Review”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015094.php made a reference to “When Prophecy Fails”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails.

So, when you consider that the the name of this blog comes from a “Blue Oyster Cult”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult song, it should be no surprise (to those who know their catalog as well as I, at least) that I immediately assumed that he was making a reference to their song “Extra Terrestrial Intelligence”:http://www.blueoystercult.com/Studio/lyrics/5-ETI.html.

Of course, it turns out that he was making reference to the book that, one might guess from “its description on Wikipedia”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails probably inspired the song.