Photos from the disaster, courtesy Friend of Nuketown Dan Sobczak.

News reports say America's intelligence agencies had no warning that terrorists were going to seize four planes and use them to launch devastating acts of war against New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

They should have been reading their Nostradamus -- the cryptic old sage predicted the attacks. Or so says a hoax that's circulating around the net.

The stars are almost right. Alien creatures out of time and mind have infested our world, making dark packs with national governments that trade sanity-rending secrets for a freehand in human experimentation. At the dawn of the 21st century only one force stands against the vast conspiracies ensnaring America: Delta Green.

In a few places around the country, gas prices have shot through the roof, in large part because of rumors that gas prices were shooting through the roof. Folks are scrambling to get gas, drastically increasing the demand for a product that is in limited (if re-fuelable) supply. Some folks are decrying this as profiteering, declaring it to be immoral. Some folks are decrying this as profiteering, declaring it to be immoral. No folks, it isn't immoral -- it's capitalism, and this is how we keep the supplies flowing! This is how we ensure -- without government intervention -- that folks have a chance to buy gas. It is a transaction between two free-willed individuals, without the threat of force. It is the essence of morality.