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Bush Promotes Leader of Apocalyptic Cult :: Republicans Vote Against Mother's Day :: Oil Lobby Starts Propaganda Blitz Against Angry Motorists :: Nonvoting Nuns Strike Back :: Gas Station Clerk Fired After Being Robbed :: 500 Scientsts Angry At Inclusion By Global Warming Denial Group :: Hillary Clinton: the Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party :: The Iraq Money Pit :: Blogger Pollster Out-Predicts Professionals :: NASA Offering $17,000 for People to Stay In Bed

Lessons in wielding authority

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:32:18 -0400

Creationist spoof irks Board of Education member

Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:00:57 -0500

The CIA considered no other spot on Earth to be as sensitive as Groom Lake, and the astronauts had just taken a picture of it.

Unintelligent Design

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:39:18 -0500

By Brian Drake

Originally posted on the Straight Dope Message Board

What with all the talk about teaching "Intelligent Design" in the classroom, I thought I'd take a look at the whole concept, and I quickly concluded that if God, indeed, had created things the way the Bible says, then he's done some pretty shoddy work and has a lot to answer to.

What I'd Say to the Martians

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:04:31 -0400

People of Mars, you say we are brutes and savages. But let me tell you one thing: if I could get loose from this cage you have me in, I would tear you guys a new Martian asshole. You say we are violent and barbaric, but has any one of you come up to my cage and extended his hand? Because, if he did, I would jerk it off and eat it right in front of him. "Mmm, that's good Martian," I would say.

Stupid Dino Tricks

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:27:07 -0400

Young-earth creationist Kent Hovind has built a dinosaur-filled theme park in the Florida panhandle and claims to prove that evolution is bunk. A visit there shows that it is definitely a fantasy land.

Twinkie Failure Testing

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:17:46 -0400

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, or Food?

In an effort to clarify questions about the purported durability and unusual physical characteristics of Twinkies, we subjected the Hostess snack logs to the following experiments:

A Visit to Dreamland

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:08 -0400

One man's attempt to visit the elusive "Area 51".

Spoon Bending

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:55:22 -0400

A Really Lousy Trick for Really Lousy People

by Penn Jillette & Teller

Reprinted with permission

U.S. Dropped A-Bomb On Japan to Kill Godzilla!

Wed, 02 May 2007 17:07:13 -0400

Contrary to what most history books say, the U.S. military did not drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima simply to end World War 2, but mainly to destroy Japan's secret weapons -- Godzilla and Rodan!

Project Alpha

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:25:11 -0400

What would happen if two young Conjurors posing as psychics were introduced into a well-funded university parapsychology laboratory?

Vanilla Ice Cream Causes Car Problems

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:52:54 -0400

For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible, are still the facts, this is a weird but true story (with a moral).

Seer of L.A. or Blinded by Its Light?

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:38:58 -0400

Los Angeles' most provocative social critic has stretched, bent and broken more than a few facts in "Ecology of Fear," his latest, darkly themed work on the urban area he claims to love.

Sperm Bandwidth

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:47:05 -0400

At 5 in the morning, an associate of mine took the time to compute the rough bandwidth consumed in the human ejaculation.