The Wednesday Weirdness Roundup is at Leaving Alex Jonestown this week, 'cause Alex Jones dished out enough weirdness last week to keep you screaming "No, seriously, WTF??!!" well into December.
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
Someone or something is using UV rays to "execute" all the white folks. Whites must leave the planet by 2012 or they're toast, literally. This seems to be a variation of the (satirical?) conspiracy theory/hoax that a deranged Ohio cult calling itself Yacub 7 Ali has trained its sun-worshipping disciples to eliminate the white population... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
The weirdest, most confusing website I've seen in a looong time: Lika Diplomat (AKA Lika Valentino, AKA the Queen of Iraq). Badly mangled English + conspiranoid rants + incoherent woman who seems to think she deserves a place on the world stage = WTF?. (Please, don't visit if you're epileptic - those flashing clowns will... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup + an announcement
April 1st seems like a fitting day on which to announce a change of format for Swallowing the Camel, so here's the deal: I'm going to cover one general topic a week, but will also (of course) post about whatever else snags my interest, plus the Wednesday Weirdness roundup. Mondays will feature posts about specific... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
A blog called Suicide Food examines advertisers' use of cute cartoon animals that cheerfully urge you to eat them. (Saturday Night Live lampooned this kind of thing with their decapitated Clucky the Chicken, but Suicide Food takes it to a whole new level.) Far from being a modern marketing trend, however, "suicide food" has always... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
"Right to the moon! Seriously!" On a recent Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, a guest brought up a truly weird story: Jackie Gleason was friends with Nixon, and Nixon took him to a U.S. military base (Homestead AFB in Florida) to view the body of an ET. The story was told by Gleason's... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
20something guy overheard in a coffeeshop: "Primordial bacteria are killing fisherman; the planet is fighting back, just like in The Happening." He went on to say that Steven Spielberg deserves props for including the "suppressed" knowledge of head-binding in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, even though it was a crappy movie.... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
Paula Oliviera, a 26-year-old Brazilian lawyer, claimed earlier this month that while visiting Switzerland she was assaulted by a group of neo-Nazi punks. The three skinheads grabbed her as she stood outside a train station in Zurich, speaking Portuguese over her cell phone. They made some racial slurs, then carved the initials of Switzerland's wildly... Continue Reading →
Wednesday Weirdness Roundup
Here are just a few of the bizarre bits of nonsense I've encountered this week: "You can treat just about anything through the ears," said a friend who had tiny adhesives stamped all over both of his ears. The adhesives, called "seeds", are placed on acccupressure points. Every so often, he has to squeeze each... Continue Reading →
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