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We Knew This Mets Season Would Be Weird, But We Had No Idea Aliens Would Be Involved

It's a dirty job, but someone had to do it. Seems that the Mets swapped cities with the Toronto Blue Jays and traded up for their Triple-A franchise. Now, if you want to see the Mets' next hot pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler, you'll have to fly to Vegas. But the Mets didn't just acquire a new minor ... More >>

Room 237 Indulges The Shining's Conspiracy Authorities

Salon Publishes, Retracts Article Defending 9/11 Truthers

Today Salon got in a bit of trouble when it re-posted a story from one of its partners, The Weeklings, called "Give truthers a chance?" before immediately pulling it down after readers commented and tweeted their disgust. As pro-truther articles go, it wasn't all that bad, since it continued Salon's ... More >>

UPDATE: Pro-Gun Radio Host Alex Jones Fears Being Offed by NYPD/Mafia Following Epic CNN Interview

Update: Glory to God, Alex Jones uploaded a video after his interview on Piers Morgan Tonight, and dare we say that it might've outdone his original rant, which led to him trending nationally on Twitter. Jones was back in his hotel room after the taping, and he claimed to fear for his life. Befo ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Under-Utilized Secret Weapon: Donald Trump (According To Donald Trump)

Pardon our redundancy, but the sun came up today, which, of course, means one thing: America's stingiest billionaire made an ass of himself on Twitter.On Wednesday, we started a petition to get Donald Trump kicked off the Internet, and we did so as a favor to him -- to keep things like this from con ... More >>

Here's Donald Trump's Not-So-Major Announcement (Of Course It's Birther Related)

Billionaire publicity skank Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would be making a huge, gynormous, earth-shattering announcement on Twitter today at noon."It's all in one -- everything -- it's very big," the Donald said on Fox and Friends Monday.As you can see in the video above, Trump's "major ... More >>

Donald Trump Makes An Ass Of Himself In Florida, Surprises No One

Well, the sun came up yesterday, which means one thing: Donald Trump humiliated himself by rambling on and on (and on) about fictitious birth certificates, Hawaiian twins, and a Kenyan Manchurian Candidate.The bumbling billionaire was near Tampa, Florida last night, where -- yet again -- he spouted ... More >>

Serial Foot-Licker Anthony Parri Claims Barack Obama Set Him Up

Grab your tinfoil helmets, birthers: there's a new Barack Obama conspiracy theory to wrap your heads around -- this one involves an alleged serial foot-licker and the president's plan to set him up.An upstate man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly licked the feet of two young girls at a libra ... More >>

Former KKK Leader David Duke Endorses NY Councilman Charles Barron for Congress

In a somewhat strange turn of events, the former leader (that's "Grand Wizard" to you) of the Ku Klux Klan has deemed it fitting to endorse New York's City Councilman Charles Barron in his race for a national Congressional seat. In the endorsement video (if you can manage to get through all 8.5 mi ... More >>

Andreas von Bülow: The World's Most Respectable 9/11 Conspiracy Nut

von Bulow: CIA blew up the World Trade CenterThere are 9/11 conspiracy nuts who are nuts and then there's German politician Andreas von Bülow, a member of the center-left Social Democrats who spent 25 years in the Bundestag and was Helmut Schmidt's Minister for Research and Technology for a few ... More >>

Bill Keller, New York Times Boss, Still Not Loving WikiLeaks, Twitter

​Yesterday the New York Times announced that Bill Keller will step down as the executive editor and be replaced by managing editor Jill Abramson, while Keller will focus on just writing. Keller seems to have started this transition when he took on a column in the redesigned New York Times Maga ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Conspiracy Website Says Jared Loughner Shooting Never Happened

​Today's New York Times features an articled called "Hoax Site Distressing for Victims of Shooting," which tells of a conspiracy website "claiming that the shootings that nearly killed Representative Gabrielle Giffords and did end the lives of a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl and four others ... More >>

10 Percent of Birthers Will Not Be Convinced By Some Silly Actual Birth Certificate

​Recall last week, when one of the major issues being discussed by the fine people of our nation was still whether or not Barack Obama was born in the U.S., even though his administration released a copy of his birth certificate years ago. Still, there were plenty of detractors who said he cou ... More >>

Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech Runs Wild, Namechecks ODB

​On Friday, we talked about how Beyoncé's participation in Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" program showed how the Obamas were interested in including a wider (and younger-skewing) swath of culture in official political life. On Saturday, President Obama's speech to the White House Correspondent ... More >>

Barack Obama's Birth Certificate: Here It Is! But Something About It Looks Fishy...

​Kenya, East Africa?! It says so right there on the paper... (Haha, just kidding.) That's the birthplace of Obama's father, who shares the name Barack Hussein Obama, but was not birthed on August 4, 1961. Our president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shut up, birther idiots. Shut up, Donald Trum ... More >>

Battle of Birtherism: Rightbloggers Divide on Whether Obama is Foreign-Born or Merely Un-American

Despite fresh pushback from some top conservatives, the longstanding rightblogger obsession with Barack Obama's birth certificate has not abated. Even as prominent rightwing columnists and politicians tried to talk down the birther surge exacerbated by the Donald Trump campaign, the notion that O ... More >>

Trig Palin Is Sarah Palin's Son: Birther Conspiracy Is Bullshit

​We'd rather just not write about Sarah Palin. Occasionally, though, the media angle on the frustratingly evil ex-politician is too good to ignore, like yesterday when her rabid supporters joined forces with reasonable people to condemn and ultimately cream the political blog Wonkette for thei ... More >>

Donald Trump's Letter to The New York Times

​Remember when Gail Collins called out Donald Trump for being a totally not viable presidential candidate in her column last week? Did you think The Donald was just going to take that sitting down? No, no, no. This week he responds in the pages of the Times. He really, really hates Gail Collin ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Poster From FBI Doesn't Even Mention 9/11

FBI's poster of Bin Laden.​The FBI's Ten Most Wanted list of course includes Osama bin Laden, but it doesn't say he's wanted for murdering several thousand New Yorkers on 9/11. What gives? Why the pussyfooting around such an obvious fact?

Leftover Crack

A Gallery Of Twitter Responses To Pitchfork's 10.0 Kanye West Review

So the big whoop today is that Pitchfork bestowed its first 10.0 review in nearly a decade on Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ; penned by a dear friend of ours, rest assured this opinion has generated, in turn, a wide variety of online opinions -- outraged, bemused, intrigued, confu ... More >>

Our Alien Moon Base, Gerald Ford's Pedophilia, and 20 other unlikely claims from The Untold History of America

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Untold History of America: 1492 - 1963 Author: Ray Bilger Date: 1996 Publisher ... More >>

A REAL PATRIOT

Glenn Beck, meet your screenwriter

Obama: Ain't No Party Like A Birther Tea Party 'Cause A Birther Tea Party Don't Stop

​Also, it won't ever be of concern to President Barack Obama, because Barack Obama is an intelligent, rational person, who won't dignify stupid, irrational people. Which he basically implied to America when he sat down for a Today Show interview with Matt Lauer yesterday.

Angels & Demons Has a Need for Speed

The Residents Hit the Blender Theatre at the Gramercy

More possibly justified paranoid surrealism from the 36-year-old conceptual art collective

Beck Goes All Al Gore on Us

CONSPIRACY THEORY

A new take on 9/11

Former Senator Gravel Backs NYC 9/11 Commission

Bloodline's Goofy Puzzles

New doc explores The Da Vinci Code

Oswald's Ghost

Bilderberg Alert!

Fakes on a Plane

Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies

Letters

The Usual Suspects

What it takes to make a conspiracy theory

The Seekers

The birth and life of the '9-11 Truth movement'

Morning Report 2/23/05
Wead to Bush Beat: Yeah, The Tapes Made Bush Look Good

Opus Heyday

The success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code excites interest in a secretive Catholic lay group—and further notes on the culture of conspiracism

No Such Thing as Paranoia

On the culture of conspiracism

In the Know: The Freakiest of the Underground Surfaces

General Alarm

Conspiracy Theorists See Clark as Another Piece of the Waco Puzzle

The Parallax View

Laundering the 'Truth'

'The Nation' Defuses a French Bombshell

Nation

Invitations to Hell

Paranoia Runs Deep

Conspiracy theories have seeped into the heart of the American public