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BAD DIAGNOSIS: An unsolicited email this week invites
contributions to a publication some aspiring authors may have missed:
the forthcoming "9/11 Truth Joke Book." No, not a collection of
tasteless jokes like the ones that followed the 1986 Challenger
explosion. The first two words of the title here refer to the twisted
body of belief which holds that the Bush administration organized the
attacks. (The latest subtheory: It was a controlled explosion by
demolition experts.) Kevin Barrett, described as "an Arabist
specializing in the analysis of myth, literature and folklore," writes
in his email that the joke book will function as psychic medicine: "The
growing awareness that 9/11 was an inside job has shocked people into
over-seriousness, paranoia or, most commonly, silence and repression."
If only laughter were the best cure for people subjected to such
rantings. - Tony & Tacky
In fact, this is not much loonier than Howard Dean's own charge that ''President Bush had advance word of the 9/11 attacks.''
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