The chair, FYI, was made of balsa. That's why it so easily breaks into pieces.

Inexplicably, the chair cost about $4,000 to make.

So what the heck is the Tunney?

@seekshelter: Although I still believe it's faked, a wide-angle lens placed relatively close to the fans would give that illusion.

"Did you see the ring around the moon last night?"

No, because I wasn't where the cirrus clouds were. This isn't a worldwide phenomenon.

I call After Effects.

"How did they test this?"

May I suggest substituting conjecture with reading the article?

One more animal gas story and we've got a trifecta.

That kid is going to grow up to be one weird, wild chick.

Why is the steam black? Looks toxic!

Nerds? No, we nerds were always interested in girls; we just didn't know how to talk to them.

Rocky, you seem to have inferred an entire belief system into what I said. Let me explain it to you.

Thieves don't care who you are. They're jackholes. Why is anyone surprised that a thief would rob a nun? It's no more surprising that a jackhole robbed a woman wearing a habit than if had he robbed anyone else. I never understand why people think it's so unbelievable when a church or a religious figurehead becomes the victim of a crime, because *criminals don't care about people*. Or as I summarized it initially, "Why should their ridiculous costumes automatically exempt them from crime?" Got it now?

My comments were targeted at the presumed exceptionality of the story, not toward the criminal or the victim. I never said, or even implied, I supported the thief. I never said, or even implied, the nun deserved it. But being a nun doesn't give a person any special protection from crime, so it's no more newsworthy than anyone else getting robbed.

Read only the words I wrote, Rocky, not the ones you wish I had written.

Oh, and my life is fine, and my audience is awesome.

"Only a ridiculous person uses the word 'ridiculous' so often."

Wow, got me there. Yet, I'm still waiting for you to explain how I depicted the thief as noble in any way.

Nobility? Only someone with a prejudice against atheists can make such a ridiculous inference ... and assume that someone who thinks habits are ridiculous must be an atheist.

He's an equal opportunity mugger. Why should their ridiculous costumes automatically exempt them from crime?

Oh, and novanglus ... James Randi is very much alive.