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How did one Canadian journalist become the peace broker betweeen 10,000 rich white dudes and 6 million pissed-off Asians? Well, it involves Japanese finance, Nikola Tesla, and liver pills... Until 2005 Benjamin Fulford was a Tokyo-based correspondent with Forbes magazine, writing articles on Asian finance. Then, he says, he quit in protest after the magazine... Continue Reading →
I had my suspicions about the alleged Pregnancy Pact. This is what I wrote about it on another blog on June 21, as part of my review of Juno: "And speaking of pregnant teenagers, this is total b.s. Sh**, in high school my girlfriends and I couldn't even agree on which movie to see. No... Continue Reading →
The other day, an elderly gentleman soberly informed me that Obama will be the next President of the United States. Not because he's the best candidate or even because he's getting the most votes, but because Dick Cheney is going to make sure it happens that way. Why? Well, around Christmas last year the choir... Continue Reading →
This month, over 400 infants, children, and teens were removed from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community in Eldorado, Texas, by Child Protective Services. There had been reports of underaged girls being forced to marry much older men. Specifically, a 16-year-old girl named Sarah phoned a Texas women's shelter to report that she was... Continue Reading →
Oh, fer cryin' out loud, will this never end?! Riverhead Books, a division of the Penguin Group started in 1994, has published the Dalai Lama, Nick Hornsby, The Kite Runner, and James Frey's wholly fictional memoir My Friend Leonard. Three Riverhead authors are up for the 39th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work, and... Continue Reading →
Misha Defonseca: A new addition to the Bogus Holocaust Memoirists Hall of Shame Don't you just love it when your timing is spot-on? Today I was skimming through some of my notes on suspected literary frauds. These are cases that set off all my B.S. bells, but I can't prove they're bogus: The works usually... Continue Reading →
The Mayor of Casterbridge meets "Satanic brainwashing"... Nov. 2007 69-year-old Ken Williams had been the mayor of Centerton, Arkansas for 6 years when he announced that his name was really Don LaRose. Over 30 years earlier he had been LaRose (now 67 years old), a married preacher and father of two in New York state,... Continue Reading →
** Time magazine's 25 Crimes of the Century (released for the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping) includes art theft, bank robberies, murders, and abductions. But the only hoax to make it onto the list is Piltdown Man. Fair enough: It was a hoax that struck at the very core of who we are as... Continue Reading →
In preparation for my viewing of Hoax this evening, I'm re-watching Orson Welles's fantastic half documentary/half mockumentary F is for Fake. Welles was, as ever, ridiculously ahead of his time when he made this film about infamous art forger Elmyr de Hory. Clifford Irving, who wrote the official biography of de Hory before embarking on... Continue Reading →
The online world has been punk'd by an adorable teen science geek who led us to suspect she is soon to become a virgin sacrifice for her parents' "Satanic" cult. But now that it's not real, it's a fun story. Here's what I wrote on my personal blog on July 28: "Youtube is starting to... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 