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I always suspected the founder to be Gioacchino da Fiore.

That’s apocryphal. (Apocalyptic apocrapha? Apocryphal apocalypse?) And anyhow all those writings were just attributed to him posthumously. They were written in fact by GIOVANNI ANGELO MEDICI. Who (aside from being a precursor to Rawlsofascism) is the founder of the precursor of the AcademoList, named SapienSodalitas.

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18683?in=23:37&out=36:42

Oh no! They’ve taken over the enclave! Transmissions are being intercepte—

No, the founding member was Charles Darwin, who also laid out the rules for whom would be granted entry over time in a book that many people mistakenly thought was actually about finches and mockingbirds. This is a forgivable error, for this was the era before Al Queda and Al Gore teamed up to disseminate cryptography into the mainstream, and therefore secret codes were the exclusive domain of guerrilla fighter squads, practitioners of sorcery, and naturalists. (These categories overlap significantly. There are connexions to Boy Scout training. I am not to speak of them here.)

Darwin is also credited with invention of the secret “walking fish” logo that marks the cars of apprentice AcademoList initiates to this day, at least until they are “naturally selected” for admission and join the official ranks, or until they give up their attempt to join and replace the fish-logo with a Peace sign bumper sticker (a sign developed a few decades ago to enable nonmember supporters of the AcademoList to secretly broadcast their willingness to house AL members, in the event of university riots, general uprising, or a catastrophic shortage of single malt scotch).

Rumor has it that the latest project of the AcademoList is a nationwide light rail network in the United States, dubbed the Sunder-Ground Railroad, which will allow them to collectively seep into Canada over the next few years, from which they will plan a Socialist takeover of the government in 2012. (There are connexions to nanotechnology and “green energy.” I am not to speak of them here.)