Side-Effect-Free, Comparably Effective Depression Medication: Prescription Placebos
After a number of published - or, more often, unpublished - studies called into serious doubt whether antidepressants were any more effective in treating clinical depression than placebos, Big Pharma giant Smerck & Co. transformed a potentially c...
Read full storyDa Nang Dick Blumenthal: Liar Or War Hero?
BILLINGSGATE POST: What made Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, the U.S. Senator from New York, claim to be a Vietnam veteran? It was a lie, pure and simple; a prima facie example of stolen valor. It was found that he never set foot in Vietnam. And that is...
Read full storySteampunks Will Soon Be Replaced by Internal-Combustion Punks
What grew as an offshoot of the cyberpunk community, but with an aesthetic eye more backwards-looking rather than forwards-looking, the steampunks quickly took root and flourished on the open parking-lots of both comic and videogame conventions. Heav...
Read full storyPresident Trump Baffles and Shocks the Nation in New Christmas in July Television Special
Earlier today, President Donald Trump made a public address which he called Christmas in July with Daddy War-bucks. Throughout the address, he continued to call it his “reality TV show.” We still aren’t sure what to call it. This poorly-timed pu...
Read full storyThe Queen Buys Prince Philip A Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, has reacted swiftly to try to protect the longevity of her husband, Prince Philip, by purchasing a replica car from the 1968 movie, 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'. The Duke of Edinburgh has been involved in several scra...
Read full storyPresident Trump: My Wall Will Be Visible From The Moon
Buoyed by his recent success in ending the longest US government shutdown in history single-handedly, President Donald Trump today spoke about the Mexican Wall project, and said that the superstructure would be "visible from the Moon". Trump told...
Read full storyMan Was Shocked When He Finally Found Out What Song Lyrics Meant
A man who had, for months, enjoyed listening to a particular foreign-artist song he had heard regularly in a music video on the TV, received the shock of his life when he finally found out what the song's lyrics meant. Moys Kenwood, 55, first enco...
Read full storyFBI Detains Spoof Writer in Pre-Dawn Raid
Los Angeles, CA. Using a battering ram to force open the front door of his home, a horde of FBI agents detained a veteran writer for The Spoof, identified only as "Hack A," at his palatial Bel Air mansion, reportedly purchased with the pay for his Sp...
Read full storyMan Spotted Lad Wearing Fake Adidas Trainers
Not all of us can afford the best in clothing and shoes, and often, we have to make do with cheaper substitutes. This was exactly the scenario at a Bangkok school this week, when an English instructor witnessed one of the students in one of his c...
Read full storyIn the Interest of Improving Foreign Relations, Trump And Kim Jong-un Agree to Imagine Each Other Naked
In the interest of improving foreign relations, and advancing negotiations regarding North Korea''s speculated nuclear agenda, United States President Donald Trump and North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un agreed to try a time-tested tension-easing...
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