Wonkette

Washington is buzzing with another kind of immigration nut as hundreds of UFO nerds congregate at the National Press Club to demand, uselessly, that the Government ‘fess up about the space monsters, while more than 70 actual astronomers gathered here to support the Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory in Puerto Rico, which sent the Nixon-era message to the Extraterrestrials inviting them to invade our world and steal all the oil. Unless Congress keeps up funding for Arecibo, rogue FBI agents and space aliens could easily penetrate its defenses. Oh, and also, something from Outer Space just crashed in Peru and left a gaping hole in the ground and all the people are sick and vomiting from the Death Rays. MORE »

This one’s a bit off our usual turf, in more ways than one, but here goes: While America was expressing its gratitude for all things with characteristic gluttony, former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer was his steeling his nation’s representative body for apparently imminent encounters with aliens. Hellyer has gotten Canada’s Parilaiment to initiate hearings about the implications of such encounters and has also recruited three Canadian NGOs to join forces with him–because, hey, you have to be really bored to be working at a Canadian NGO. MORE »