The Empire of the Odd

By Alan Scherstuhl, Monday, Jun. 21 2010 @ 8:00AM The trouble with having a religion founded by a crazy writer is that crazy writers tend to write crazy shit. Traditionally, the Church of Scientology has handled this by making access to the craziest of L. Ron Hubbard‘s jabberings a reward you might earn in exchange for having blown [...]

Planet Earth has not (yet) been destroyed by today’s terrifying Boobquake experiment – one Indiana student’s response to Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi’s insistence that immodestly dressed women provoke earthquakes. Sedighi recently declared: “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupting their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases [...]

We have been giving the Mormons a hammering over the last few days. Although I find their beliefs highly improbable, it is hard not to admire their loyalty to them and their willingness to defend them. They say adversity makes us stronger, and this sect has had enough of that to become very strong. For [...]

In the United States, we need a religious bill of rights about as much as we need a white people’s bill of rights, or a men’s bill of rights. That is, not at all: when 90+ percent of the country claims to be religious, you pretty much run the joint anyway. Worse, we hardly need [...]

Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 @08:56am CST Denver residents will vote next year on whether to create a city commission to study visitors from outer space. The decision comes after petitioners gathered over ten-thousand signatures to get the measure on the ballot. Voters will consider the issue on August 10th, 2010. Petition organizer Jeff Peckman says [...]

Perhaps the most important feature of the judgment is what the court did not do: it made no direct ruling that would restrict the activities of either the Celebrity Centre or the SEL bookshop. But the following individuals and organisations were convicted of organised fraud against some, but not all the alleged victims (of which [...]

I’m a little confused about this myself (not that this is the first time.) Stephan Colbert announced that because of a recent NASA poll to nominate names for the new ISS node. Serenity seems to be the number one pick (thanks no doubt to a harpoon party of a bunch of Brown Coats, Xenu the [...]

Many people I discuss UFOs with cringe when I mention the word skeptic (let alone when I verbally equate myself with being one in their presence). Sadly, skepticism is looked upon as a bad thing by many who study phenomenology, mostly due to the attitudes exhibited by those who openly label themselves “skeptics”. Conversely, it [...]

Labels: UFO ETS Aliens Dedicated To Glen Dennis & Miriam Bush And the Dumbest Debunker Of The Year Award goes to: Burien Dunning, for his article “Betty And Barney Hill The Original Abduction”, complete with outright lies and distortions. Dunning has done it. I quote: “Innumerable books(3) and movies(1)have been made about the Betty and [...]