Russ McBee

Via Rex Hammock, Paris Hilton responds to McCain's recent sleazy ad depicting Obama alongside her and Britney Spears: Maybe I'm showing my age, but it seems like every presidential campaign becomes ever more surreal than the last one.

This is just too funny: Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. [...] In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation ''was halted due to untimely payment,'' the audit found. FISA ...

I have a new story posted at the Psychozilla Tribune, in which the world is introduced to Ogg the Caveman. After lying frozen in a glacier for 50,000 years, he woke up when global warming started melting the ice. He's now taking the world by storm. Read about Ogg here.

Newscoma is tipsy-blogging ''Plan 9 From Outer Space.'' Right now, as I type this, she's watching the movie and drinking some merlot, and blogging about it. Just go read this post. This is why God invented blogs.

Pop open the champagne, folks -- the Psychozilla Tribune has gone live! In the spirit of the late, great Weekly World News (which recently ceased publication of its print edition), the PZT seeks to report news that is ... (ahem) ... ''slightly off-center.'' I think that'll prove to be an understatement. Considering who's behind the ...

Today, I read the latest idiotic statement from the Vatican, and my outrage began to coalesce: In comments released in advance of an interview to be published today in the German weekly Süeddeutsche Magazin, [Msgr. Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s secretary] said: ''Attempts to Islamize the West cannot be denied. The danger for the identity ...

Based on this, I swear I'll never search at Amazon for anything but books, DVDs, music, and electronics. Kevin proves that the other choices are just too scary.

In this post, I mentioned a resolution being considered by a county-wide Republican party convention in Utah. The resolution declared that illegal immigration was the work of Satan. The state Senate Republican party leader predicted ''I don't think there is going to be a great deal of people attributing the problem to Satan'' at Saturday's ...

A Utah Republican has introduced a resolution in his county asserting that illegal immigration is the work of Satan. No, really. I'm not making this up. Here's what he says: ''In order for Satan to establish his 'New World Order' and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S.,'' Larsen’s ...