I have a Congenital Allergy to Conspiracy Theorists Like This

Growing band of kooks floats various theories about 9/11. Soon it will replace JFK's assassination as the new bellwether for all X Files types. I'm one of those simple-minded people who think Oswald got up in a tall building with a rifle and shot the President. I also think the basic 9/11 narrative is right: Osama plotted it and it was carried out by 19 Al Quaeda nuts. I am aided and abetted by the fact that I've seen the Pentagon damage with my own eyes and find it rather hard to credit claims that no plane crashed there. One wonders where Barbara Olsen has got herself to these past five years.

Anyway, further evidence that for some people, not amount of common sense will do. There's a strange itch in the human soul to be the Possessor of the Secret History of Our Time. It's so much grander than being an ordinary schlep.