The Burning Taper

Get out your passport, call the airlines, and meet me at Conway Hall on Red Lion Square in London this Saturday. The Grand Orient of France ...

I join Bro. Hodapp (who scooped me on this story ) in congratulating W. Bro. Joseph Adegboyega on his installation on January 5 as Worshipf...

I'm moving our ongoing Burning Taper presidential primary back to the top of the page, in case there are new readers who may be missing...

Work, family, new friends, and a laid-back and lethargic laziness have kept me from posting on The Taper lately. I must admit... last month...

A little song A little dance A little seltzer Down your pants. — Chuckles the Clown (1970-1975) Chuckles the Clown was crushed by an elephan...

[For your listening pleasure, you can click here to open a new window and listen to a demon-possessed MIDI file of "Tubular Bells,...

This article is not meant to be disrespectful to patriots, veterans, law enforcement officers, politicians, American flags, Freemasons, fift...

The following is reprinted from the Grand Lodge of Georgia's newly designed website . This is the first I've heard that the most rec...

A few weeks ago I wrote about and posted a few photos from Rose Hill Cemetery, located on the banks of the Ocmulgee River in Macon, Georgia...

As you've probably noticed, monkey business is our business. I've written before that the Taper 's masthead should probably be...

Bro. Tom Coste, of Halcyon Lodge No. 2 in Cleveland, Ohio, wrote in to tell us about an "irregular Masonic meeting" he attended ea...

The Prisoner. Chances are, either you're already a big fan, or you've never heard of it. The Prisoner was a British television show...

Bro. Cory Sigler is the publisher of the impressive online magazine The Working Tools . In the October issue , he said of this blog: " ...

As I'm sure you know, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican presidential candidate, was excluded from Fox News' "Fair and Balanced...

A group of flying monkeys, led by a paranoid videographer who calls himself "Weaving Spider," descended on a Masonic meeting in T...

Bro. D.W. Brown, who runs the "The Blue Lodge" online forum, tells us about himself in this our 14th glimpse into the lives of our...

Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? might be stumping us, but playing along at home during the debates and the upcoming primaries has neve...

W. Bro. Tom Coste, of Cleveland's Halcyon Lodge , writes in to tell us "This is Who I Am." Thanks, Bro. Tom! Greetings, Brethr...

According to New York magazine, the Grand Lodge of New York has hired a publicist. The magazine reported that the New York Times and othe...

The publisher of this blog has an agenda. The publisher of every blog has an agenda. The producer of every avenue of expression has an agend...