Robert Anton Wilson assassinated at 75.

TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY, Dallas, Thursday (UN23) — Humble scribe Robert Anton Wilson leveled up at his Monterey Bay mansion Thursday morning at 5:23am.

From working as a freelancer throughout the 1950s, Wilson moved to Dallas, Texas in 1960 and worked for the Dallas Times Herald as a staff reporter. In 1964 he won the Pennington Prize for his series of stories on John F. Kennedy's brain, which he firmly established had accidentally been eaten as lunch on Air Force One, an incident Lyndon B. Johnson had sought to downplay.

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How to spot a psychopath at work.

BEDLAM, City of London, Friday — How well do you know your colleagues' personalities? Researchers warn some of them may have psychopathic traits.

But they say this is nothing to be worried about. They will hopefully not be violent, but their psychopathic traits will allow them to climb the career ladder. And you can claim your antacid tablets on expenses.

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Scientology exhibit valiantly protects the mentally ill.

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Thursday (UNEX) — On Thursday and Friday, the Capitol Rotunda in Columbia, Missouri will host an exhibit titled The Industry of Death. If you didn't know that psychiatrists and the entire psychiatric profession are part of a secret plan for world domination, developed in part by Adolf Hitler, then it’s time to load the kids in the car for a day of fun at the Capitol.

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US sends Libertarianism to cleanse Somali government.

SHITHOLE, Mogadishu, Tuesday (UNN) — The US has carried out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia dropping informative Libertarian texts on Authoritarian fighters, who the US says include members of an al-European cell linked to the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, on the recommendations of Libertarian think-tank the Cato Institute.

Somalia is the only truly Libertarian country in the world, where the curse of government has been almost entirely abolished and all citizens are free to engage in laissez-faire trade and interact in an atmosphere of enlightened self-interest without arbitrary maternalistic interference from Authorities claiming governmental domain over the lives of inherently free heroic individuals. American survivalists, technolibertarians, Objectivists, gun-nuts, open source programmers and WiReD readers flocked to the country after the scourge of governmental brakes on societal progress was finally driven into the ocean in 1992. The recently-deposed Margaret Thatcher lent her strong support to a society provably having the virtue of nonexistence.

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