EXACTLY!

If there is one good thing about Fox News, it is Shepard Smith.

9/11 Conspiracy Theorists can Suck It.

A rant about the 9/11 Conspiracy "Theorists" and how full of shit they are. The author makes some good points about just why these people do what they do, too, and it's not because they're stupid, or gullible, or crazy (though many of them fit all three of these labels) -- it's because they can sell DVDs and books and lecture tickets to stupid, gullible, and crazy people.

Here it is, in its magnificent pissed-offed-ness.

Disclaimer: I, myself have been known to be a bit gullible.

B-Movie Reality

Stay with me here: It's a dark night in the high plains of Peru. A guy in a serape or something is leading his burro home. He's running late. Suddenly, there's a bright light in the sky and a thundering impact. The burro brays with terror and pulls its halter out of his grasp, running off into the night. The guy calls after it, but we see a strange glow build behind him. He turns around slowly, and ...

Okay, so it didn't happen exactly like that, but National Geographic has a story here with some ominously cliche elements: A mysterious metor impact, local residents becoming ill, a totally "rational" explanation for the illness courtesy of an agency with a very long acronym...

I'm telling you, it's only a matter of time before Peru drops off the grid and we're all of a sudden in the middle of humanity's finest moment as we struggle for survival against the triffid invasion.