On the Internet, no one knows ....

... you're not a real soccer player.

Slate features a piece about an intriguing Internet hoax - a European soccer phenom that didn't actually exist.

If getting fake news out in the mainstream press is this easy, is it any surprise that I don't really pay much attention to the news anymore?

article at Slate

Real or the Onion? You decide...

Have you ever found yourself reading "The Onion", then turning to a "real" news outlet and finding that the headlines are similar? I often do.

Which of the following are "real" and which are from "The Onion"? Click and find out...

Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein

Chained to the Radiator? It’s for Her Own Good

Anna Nicole Smith's casket moved to grave

Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site

Dancing' adds Cliff from 'Cheers'

Arrests made in giggling bandits case

Where Only the Salad Is Properly Dressed

Sword Fight Ensues After S.C. Break-In

Tennessee High School Students Make Porn Film Between Classes

Brittney and Anna Nicole - why should we care?

According to CNN, the troubled star was seen at a tattoo parlor shaving her head. A crowd gathered and pandemonium broke out.

Along with all of the coverage of the troubled (and still dead) Anna Nicole, I'm becoming convinced that Americans's lives must be really fucked up - if they're following the escapades of a trailer park trash nut that couldn't sing her way out of a paper bag and a buxom golddigger with the intellectual capacity of a peanut as a way to feel better about their own existence, then life must be pretty sad.

A friend gave me the first season of Anna Nicole's reality show on DVD for Christmas a few years back. I could only make it through a couple of episodes before outright nausea set in. In the episode I saw, she was looking for a new house and crawled under a table to retreive something she dropped. She promptly got stuck under the table and required assistance from the crew of the show to get out from under it.

Can any homo sapiens be that dumb?

Is this really what we're watching on television these days?