The Burning Taper

The Grand Lodge of Georgia will hold its 222nd Annual Communication in Macon, Georgia, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Ou...

Bro. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was apparently into writing church music in the years leading up to his death at age 35, researchers suggest, ...

Yesterday the Grand Lodge of North Carolina officially passed by a vote of 642 yeas to 328 nays the Resolution for Mutual Recognition of the...

Police and firefighters rushed to the scene after a burglar stuck in an air vent at the Knoxville Museum of Art dialed 911 from his cellphon...

We hold ourselves to be a nation of laws, but are we? Apparently, it's perfectly okay these days for a government official to off-the-cu...

The lawsuit by expelled Past Grand Master of West Virginia Bro. Frank Haas against the Grand Lodge of West Virginia and Past Grand Master B...

If you would like to help those who have suffered during the recent storms and hurricanes in Texas and the Caribbean, follow this link to a...

Now that word is out about Sarah Palin being a Satan-worshiping Freemason , apparently she's being hounded by, well, by some rich bastar...

The friendly folks over at Welcome to the Machine wrote the other day about a new game they've invented. For lack of a better title, it...

Following in the footsteps of his mirthful pals former state prosecutor Bro. Michael Stebick and former police captain Bro. John Trowbridge,...

The following is guest commentary by long-time reader and Freemason known as Diogenes. Perhaps this might be a good time to mention that in ...

Yesterday's Sports Illustrated ran a story , and the BBC posted an interview with historian Julian Pooley, indicating that "Ameri...

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, or so they say. The paranoid black helicopter shortwave radio crowd is now convinced that Gov. Sarah ...

I've been doing other things besides blogging lately, so I'm kinda late in chiming in on a recent post and its subsequent comments ...

While the world oohs and ahs over sexy librarian Gov. Sarah Palin and the stirring socialist speech of equally inexperienced Sen. Barack O...

Please note: This article contains one of the late George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television," as well of a...

This is our 21st installment of "This Is Who I Am," our never-ending series of essays by and about readers of "The Burning Ta...

The Old Netmaster's ancient office chair squeaked as he lifted his hip to scratch his ass. "Ahhhh," he said, and the chair gro...

In March, 2008, several members of the Grand Orient of the United States of America traveled to Washington, D.C., for a historic meeting wit...

The Grand Orient of the United States: Facts & Fictions by Bro. Jeff Peace There are many facts and fictions floating around the Interne...

Micheal Stebick, former prosecutor for the Erie County, New York district attorney's office, former New York State Supreme Court law cle...

First, it was black descendants of American slaves, wanting reparations from the U.S. and state governments. Now, it's a group of so-cal...