August 23, 2001

DEBUNK THIS!

By far the largest and most complex crop circle ever has stunned crop circle researchers and skeptics alike on top of Milk Hill in Wiltshire County, England. The formation, which stretches approximately 900 feet in length and contains at least 400 circles appeared during the night of Monday, Aug. 13. The six-armed spiral design has been called magnificent, jaw-dropping , mind warping, incomprehensible, awesome, and "bloody huge." An average crop circle is around 200 feet, making this one at least four times larger, and its record-breaking 400-plus circles dwarves all previous formations. Crop circle researchers are understandably delighted, calling this event "the mother and father of all crop circles." Another researcher called this "the pinnacle, the epitome of perfection, the paragon of all circles." Even the skeptics are in awe of this design, which is obviously beyond human manufacture. The "Circlemakers" website, created by skeptics who have claimed responsibility for various crop circles in the past, posted this incredible commentary: "If this formation was man-made, allowing for time to get into and out of the field under cover of darkness the construction time left should be around four hours. Given that there are over 400 circles, some of which span approximately 70 feet in diameter, that would mean that one of those circles would need to be created every 30 seconds and that's not even allowing any time for the surveying... this formation pushes the envelope and that's a massive understatement... my brain hurts!" Not surprisingly, no group has come forward to claim responsibility for this latest cosmic work of art. Check out all the latest at www.cropcircleconnector.com and www.circlemakers.org.

PSYCHO KILLERS

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights has released a list of hundreds of cases of murders, suicides, and extreme violence from the past 15 years and found the common denominator in all of these were the use of antidepressants or tranquilizers by those committing the violent acts. The bottom line is that psychiatric drugs such as Ritalin, Lithium, Xanax, Valium, Thorazine, Haldol, Prozac, Zoloft and Luvox sometimes cause severe side effects which cause hostility and violence. "Psychiatric drugs cause violence," concludes the report. "Not everyone who takes a psychiatric drug commits acts of violence, but clearly some do. The research is unequivocal. How many more Littleton, Colorados, will there be before something is done?" (www.cchr.org)

THE ODD COUPLE

If you want to believe the Weekly World News (and who doesn't), researchers are combing British Columbia's forests in search of a Sasquatch accompanied by a blonde-haired boy. According to the tabloid, over two dozen witnesses have seen a young man dressed in animal skins hanging out in the woods with a "towering man-beast."

KENTUCKY FRIED CLONES

The U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology has given two private companies (Origen Therapeutics and Embrex) $4.7 million to fund research that would create the technology to clone chickens on a massive scale for factory farms. The plan involves creating a "perfect" chicken with genetically-engineered "desirable" traits, and then producing tens of thousands of eggs every hour, each containing a genetically identical bird, and hereby creating billions of clones for chicken farms. (The Telegraph)

CRUELTY TO PENISES

"Magical holy phalluses" which stop husbands from cheating are all the rage in Kumamoto, Japan. Women come to buy a scaled-down replica of a two-meter phallus which sits in the courtyard of the Yumizori Shrine. Each woman then inscribes her husband's name on the phallus, and then pounds nails into it - one for every year of their age. This ritual ensures that the man will be "physically unable to commit adultery." The magic seems to work - one newspaper reported that "merely watching the process has turned countless men off the idea of cheating." (World Tribune)

NOW TAKING NOMINATIONS FOR "BOOK TITLE OF THE YEAR"

A new children's book entitled The Day My Bum Went Psycho has made the news after being banned from an annual campaign to inspire children to read and write in Melbourne, Australia. The book follows the adventures of Zack Freeman, who "fights kamikaze bums like the Stenchgantor and the Great Unwiped Bum." (UPI)

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