The Empire of the Odd

If you’re ‘bad’, Anon, an anarchic force for good, will find you Aug 26, 2010 11:16 PM | By Staff Reporter Staff Reporter: So the web is dead. It’s the talk of the town, if by “town” we mean Navelgazeville. And we do. Michael Wolff’s article in Wired magazine (published in an edited form in [...]

We do  get the most fascinating mail here at the Odd Empire. This one was from one of our associates who thought we might be interested. At first we didn’t think much, we see letters like this all the time. But this one (remember it was not sent to the Odd Empire but to someone else) had some of MY [...]

Psst! James Gilliland thinks The Colbert Report is a serious news show. I won’t tell him if you don’t! Leslie Kean on Colbert Report http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eceti/message/5352 Colbert really established his character and wisdom concerning UFOs and Disclosure in the interview with Leslie Kean who held her own despite what looked like a hatchet job. She is a seasoned [...]

n case you haven’t heard — and c’mon, do you live in some underground cavern with Morlocks and C.H.U.D.S.? — my new TV show “Phil Plait’s Bad Universe” premieres this Sunday night August 29, at 10:00 p.m. on the Discovery Channel (check your local listings; for me it’s on at 8:00). This first episode is [...]

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Maitreya Rael, founder and leader of the International Raelian Movement, announced in a statement released today that a UFO that appeared over the Hangzhou airport, forcing authorities to close that facility, is “just the beginning of a huge wave of UFO apparitions that will appear starting now all over China.” “These UFO s are [...]

An old video from The Onion revealing a hyperbolic martial law bill was recently rediscovered by conservatives, and began to pop up on right-wing Facebook walls.Congratulations tea-baggers, you fell for a 3-year-old joke. [[[MORE]]] [[[MORE]]]

Telegraph View: The law has established a climate within which pettiness flourishes to the detriment of any common sense. A councillor faces suspension for dismissing Scientology as “stupid”; another is convicted of racial harassment for calling a colleague a coconut; a householder is made to feel like a racist for objecting to a gipsy site [...]

NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. To the geeks, freaks and hackers of the net the Church of Scientology subverts the idea of [...]

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-07-15/558172052582.html By Allen Xie Hangzhou, CHINA- A UFO was spotted over Xiaoshan airport last Wednesday, causing a one-hour flight delay and grounding 18 airplanes.  The UFO was first picked up by the airport’s radar at 8:30 pm. Many locals claimed to see what they describe as a bright white light moving across the sky. Wild [...]

Anderson Cooper has made himself a powerful enemy: the Church of Scientology. Back in March, Anderson Cooper devoted a week of his show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” to a special investigation into allegations of violence and physical abuse within the Church of Scientology. Now, the church has struck back, devoting an entire issue of one of its [...]