Weaving Spiders Come Not Here

THE BOHEMIAN GROVE

Every July in northern California, a large fraternity of some of the most powerful patriarchs on the planet gathers its members for a two-week retreat in the vast redwood forest where they inevitably get to determine the fate of the world in the months and years to come. As if that isn’t alarming enough on its own, their despicably decadent debauchery has been going on for several generations. The annual trip to the tall trees of Sonoma began all the way back in the summer of 1878, although the Bohemian Club actually formed six years earlier. At first, the somewhat informal Bohemian Club just inhabited temporary locations until it was finally established in the early 1930s when a headquarters was set up in downtown San Francisco. Regardless, the point is that a number of prominent people have been congregating in Bohemian Grove for more than 140 years, doing god knows what. The member list has included Mark Twain, Dwight Eisenhower, Walter Cronkite, Jack London, Richard Nixon, Ambrose Bierce, George Bush Sr. and Jr., Henry Kissinger, and thousands of others. Plus, guests can be invited to the Grove for either the “Spring Jinks” in June or the main “Encampment” in July. Bohemian Club members can even schedule private day-use events, whenever the Grove isn’t being used for a specific function. The only thing is that women and children have to be off the property…