The balloon hoax...

I have learned that I can not spell balloon. My fingers seem to think that it should be spelled baloon. I have been trying to reason with them for the last 10 minutes, but they are pretty thick and seem committed to their ridiculous position.

Anyway, I like to think that the Colorado police read my drunken blog and decided, on the basis of my scintillating if somewhat disconnected prose, to pursue charges against the ding-dong publicity whores who pretended to launch their least useful child into the sky.



A good hoax should have a good message. "Pay attention to me!" is not good enough.

I am going to have my students design hoaxes this week in honor of these ding-a-lings. Well, we also finished our week on mass hysteria with a discussion of the War of the Worlds panic. Hoaxes seem appropriate this week. I'm think that we'll show a clip from the Yes Men.

HJ