On vacation, I like to catch up on top-notch news sources I usually overlook. Such as Weekly World News, "America's Extreme Newspaper."

YOU might call it, oh, say, a pathetic supermarket tabloid for America's sub-literate trailer trash.

But that would be reductionist, and classist.

WWN goes where Big Media fears to tread, revealing hard truths intimidating to entrenched elites. I've read top stories from the June 21 edition, and they're obviously true. My only question: why aren't more people talking about all this?

Some highlights:

Dick Cheney is a robot (revealing pix of the sweater-vested VP included);

Florida will sink like Atlantis unless four million super-sized residents leave now;

NYSE to relocate to New Delhi; U.S. capital to Las Vegas;

Baghdad - new honeymoon hotspot;

Corruption-weary voters in small Mexican town elect mule as mayor;

Satan to re-shape image with help of L.A. PR firms;

New mechanical device invented - Gaydar.

Next week:

Bush-Cheney '04 meet-up in Seattle's Fremont district, at Taco del Mar next to Lenin statue;

In shrewd gambit, John Kerry names Halle Berry running mate.

Morton Brilliant changes name - victim of high expectations, tragically unmet.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 21, 2004 08:42 AM

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