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Rapid Droppings Busted

In case you were wondering, my right column is out of commission due to a Blogger snafu (it crashed and deleted my history and publishing when I upgraded to Blogger Pro). If it weren't, I would surely quote Happyfunpundit:

Hot on the heels of the controversial French bestseller "L'Effroyable Imposture" (The Frightening Fraud), which claims that no aircraft hit the Penatagon on Sept. 11, comes a new German book by Dieter Hauff (formerly of the musical group "Autobahn") which claims that "L'Effroyable Imposture" never existed.

Hauff's essential thesis is that the book was never written, published, or sold, and existed only in the imaginations of the French media. Chapter One opens thus:

Nobody is that stupid, not even the French intelligentsia. Naturally, I haven't read the book, since it doesn't exist