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Swallowing the Camel has moved! We're now at swallowingthecamel.wordpress.com. Please join us! The Wineville Chicken Murders, the impersonation of Walter Collins, LAPD corruption, and the secrets of Canada's Northcott familyThe case of serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott and little Walter Collins is so surpassingly bizarre, so full of incredible twists, that even a full-length feature... Continue Reading →
This has been popping up on a lot of blogs, but I couldn't resist sharing... A Stephen Colbert-puppet rant on Jenny McCarthy, from The Rant Puppets. This is not meant as a slam of Ms. McCarthy herself - just the pseudoscientific, fear-based campaign of which she is the most prominent member. For more info, see... Continue Reading →
One perfect example: Overanalyzing the hell out of Disney Channel programming. "Brainpanhandler" at the Rigorous Intuition Forum is freaked over the Disney cartoon Little Einsteins because he thinks the villainous jet that tries to thwart the kidlets leaves a chemtrail behind it. Also, the jet vaguely resembles the F-14 Tomcat. And another Disney Channel cartoon,... Continue Reading →
Director: Larry Charles I did NOT want to see this movie. But Changeling wasn't out yet, and I certainly didn't want to see Eagle Eye or Roadside Romeo. Frankly, I expected Religulous to be a shallow and disrespectful examination of complex religious issues, focused on the fringiest of the Christian fundies in an effort to... Continue Reading →
In this clip, Ralph Nader expresses his opinion that the U.S.S. Liberty incident of 1967 was a deliberate attack by Israel, but presents this interpretation as established fact. It is not. While many false flag operations have been exposed, the Liberty incident is not one of them. It's still up in the air. Some crew... Continue Reading →
Since I don't live in a kid-dense area, Halloweens are pretty quiet. I'm spending much of this one watching the Most Haunted marathon on the W network. Tell me, does anything ever happen on this show? The historical tidbits at the beginning are interesting, but then the program just turns into an hour of people... Continue Reading →
It's an outrage. It's an abomination. It's utter B.S. The short-lived hoax of Ashley Todd isn't particularly interesting (nor unique), but the reactions it elicited in the blogosphere were quite revealing. For those who missed it: Ashley Todd is a 20-year-old Texan, a member of the College Republican National Committee, and a McCain campaign volunteer.... Continue Reading →
Tin Foil Hat Lady: "The Subversive Lecture" WARNING: Please don't watch this clip unless you're cool with your ears bleeding. Saskatchewan's Tin Foil Hat Lady has my nomination for World's Most Obnoxious Truther. She uses a combination of "comedy", "acting", and "fact" to "wake up the sheeple". Whatever you call it, it's hellishly annoying and... Continue Reading →
My signif other has asked me not to blog about any of his Truther friends (although he no longer self-identifies as a Truther, he still believes 9/11 might have been a false flag operation, and does not want to offend the Truthers with whom he remains friendly). I have honored his wish to the best... Continue Reading →
I'm relieved to see a long-overdue website aimed at the most visible anti-vaccination scaremonger in America: Stop Jenny McCarthy. That a bisexual nude model famous for her gross-out behaviour can reinvent herself as a role model for parents of autistic children and as a vaccine "expert" says much about our culture. It's not that I... Continue Reading →
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