“For three years, under various pseudonyms,” writes journo Stan Sinberg, “I ‘reported’ that the real reason for global warming was that teenage space aliens were stealing our glaciers for party ice, that the judicial system was in chaos because a thief stole ‘the book’ that judges throw at them, that leftovers from the Last Supper were found in a man’s fridge, and that a man who killed a fly was arrested for ‘pesticide’ (the police chief chided, ‘That’s why we have a SWAT team’). And several hundred more ’scoops.’”

Now, Weekly World News (the self-proclaimed “World’s Only Reliable Newspaper) has published its last-ever issue,

And the supermarket checkout lines will be, as Sinberg laments, “an emptier, less imaginative place.”

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