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From 1998 to 2008, he wrote the column "Suppressed Transmission" for Steve Jackson Games' paid-access web magazine ''Pyramid''. This column, though ostensibly about RPG settings and gamemastering advice, turned out to be a wild ride through High Weirdness. It focused on four genres: [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy]], SecretHistory, {{Horror}}, and AlternateHistory. Hite generally picked a topic per column to explore through these lenses, ranging from seeming mundanities like Coca-Cola and chocolate, to mythological beasts, to historical oddities, to strange people of history, to Shakespearean meanderings, to full conspiracy theory weirdness. An early article, "Six Flags Over Roswell", showed one of his most effective frameworks: take one strange happening (here, the [[RoswellThatEndsWell supposed Roswell UFO crash]]) and ring a half-dozen variations on it into true bizzarity. One of Hite's key concepts for writing these columns (and other writing) is a technique he calls "bisociation": intentionally holding two contradictory notions in mind simultaneously (as a creativity exercise, not a pathology). Some of the "Suppressed Transmisson" columns were collected into two volumes by Steve Jackson Games, ''Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast'' and ''Suppressed Transmission 2'', and and are available both in as downloadable ebooks. Sadly, the rest of the columns were taken offline when Steve Jackson Games retired the ''Pyramid'' subscription site's archives to relaunch ''Pyramid'' as a monthly PDF magazine, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes and there are no current plans to re-issue them.]]
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From 1998 to 2008, he wrote the column "Suppressed Transmission" for Steve Jackson Games' paid-access web magazine ''Pyramid''. This column, though ostensibly about RPG settings and gamemastering advice, turned out to be a wild ride through High Weirdness. It focused on four genres: [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories [[ConspiracyKitchenSink conspiracy]], SecretHistory, {{Horror}}, and AlternateHistory. Hite generally picked a topic per column to explore through these lenses, ranging from seeming mundanities like Coca-Cola and chocolate, to mythological beasts, to historical oddities, to strange people of history, to Shakespearean meanderings, to full conspiracy theory weirdness. An early article, "Six Flags Over Roswell", showed one of his most effective frameworks: take one strange happening (here, the [[RoswellThatEndsWell supposed Roswell UFO crash]]) and ring a half-dozen variations on it into true bizzarity. One of Hite's key concepts for writing these columns (and other writing) is a technique he calls "bisociation": intentionally holding two contradictory notions in mind simultaneously (as a creativity exercise, not a pathology). Some of the "Suppressed Transmisson" columns were collected into two volumes by Steve Jackson Games, ''Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast'' and ''Suppressed Transmission 2'', and and are available both in as downloadable ebooks. Sadly, the rest of the columns were taken offline when Steve Jackson Games retired the ''Pyramid'' subscription site's archives to relaunch ''Pyramid'' as a monthly PDF magazine, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes and there are no current plans to re-issue them.]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: Ken is a Republican, but not a Trumpist. In a 2016 episode of "Ken And Robin Talk About Stuff", he was asked the following:
-->'''Robin:''' Gun to your head, who would you vote for, Hillary or Trump?
-->'''Ken:''' Gun to my head? Pull the trigger, you coward, pull the trigger!
-->'''Robin:''' Gun to your head, who would you vote for, Hillary or Trump?
-->'''Ken:''' Gun to my head? Pull the trigger, you coward, pull the trigger!
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** A corollary of Hite's Law is that rather than bother some random passerby with historical trivia to determine whether or not one is in an alternate timeline, it is much faster simply to look up
