Posts by D. H. McKee

Urban Legend: The BBC reported an outbreak of “zombism” in a Cambodian town.

Status: False. Despite its April 1 date, and its non-appearance on a real news site, a spoof article about an...

Urban Legend: Photograph shows a chupacabra’s head on a fence.

Status: False. The rather gruesome photograph displayed above has been circulating on the Internet (without explanation of its origins) since...

Quebec’s quarrel isn’t with Canada

Canadians are suddenly fretting about the spectre of Quebec separatism, 10 years after Quebecers very nearly voted to split this...

U.S. Government Objects to Canadian Copyright Reform Plan

The U.S. Trade Representative has issued its annual report on global intellectual property protection, known as the Special 301 Report....

Dead Customer Pool

work had this thing at Dooly’s for a couple of hours. A “release party” or something. We played a little...

Red speck a huge new planet, team says

A reddish speck photographed near a dim and distant star last year is indeed a planet, about five times the...

Urban Legend: Grave Statement

Photograph shows headstone marking the grave of lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Status: False. The image is, of course, a fake (Cochran...

U.S. Shows Some Parallels With Argentina of ’90s

The U.S. is not Argentina. Certainly not. Real wages in this country aren’t 20 percent lower than they were seven...

Urban Legend: Photographs show a sandstorm in Iraq.

Images are purportedly photographs of a sandstorm in Al Asad, Iraq, taken on 26 April 2005. Status: True, apparently We...

RSS Problems fixed?

Had a bit of a problem with my rss feed after moving my blog from one folder to another. Also...