"CSICOP - God is Dead, After Weather and Sports"

The jig was up for religious leaders all over the world, and many decided to come clean. From Britain, the long-suppressed introduction to the King James Bible was released: "This is a booke of instructional tayles for children and the weak of minde, and not to be taken too seriously." Israeli archaeologists confessed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were a rather crude forgery which contained such glaring anachronisms as "toothpaste," "steam engine," and "Phil Silvers." And Chinese scholars admitted that the chubby smiling Buddha began life as a corporate logo for pickled eel in the third century; he was, in effect, the Bob's Big Boy of his time.

"SatireWire - Hackers-For-Nader Deliver Surprize Victory"

While exit polls had Nader winning only 3 percent of the popular vote, the hacker group's campaign proved remarkably effective, as election computers gave the well-known consumer advocate a record 96 percent of the ballots — or 93 million votes. Vice President Gore won 3 percent, and Texas Gov. Bush, initially assumed to be the winner, took minus-3 percent, had $50,000 charged to his credit cards, and had his middle named changed to "Abby."

"CNN - Pastoral Putrefaction down on the body farm"

On three acres surrounded by razor-wire and a wooden fences near the University of Tennessee Medical Center, about 40 bodies rot away at any given time. They're stuffed into car trunks, left lying in the sun or shade, buried in shallow graves, covered with brush or submerged in ponds.
Students and UT anthropologists Richard Janz and his wife, Lee Meadows Janz, a former Bass student, take note of what insects come calling, and how long it takes them to do their work. Others test vital organs for protein degradation, amino-acid breakdown and levels of gas in the tissue. A project in partnership with the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to create a calendar of decomposition by finding a substance that decays at a stable rate for comparison -- the half-life of death, so to speak.

"ABCNews - Russians Seek Healing in Pyramids"

“Anyone in the vicinity of this pyramid,” he says, “will not become ill with cancer, AIDS, Alzheimers disease, or other sicknesses.” As a matter of fact, he says, this pyramid alone is powerful enough to cover the entire northern hemisphere, including America. Don’t you just feel better already?