I’ve been remiss, and so busy lately, that I haven’t been keeping up with my favorite news source–the Weekly World News. I’ve particularly fallen behind on the heart-rending saga of Bat Boy.

But I was fascinated to learn today, in perusing the recent headlines, that the Confederacy was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, with the ostensible purpose of destroying Washington, DC, and thus bringing to a rapid conclusion the War of Northern Aggression.

I was particularly enlightened by these lines:

?Thaddeus McMullen was a plantation slave-owner who loathed Abraham Lincoln and was willing to do anything to ensure a Confederate victory.

?He was also a brilliant researcher and scientist — in league with Albert Einstein. This made for a horrifying combination that almost resulted in the fiery deaths of thousands of innocent people.?

And here, all this time, I thought that Al Einstein was born years after the end of the war.

It almost makes me question the veracity of the story. I’d hate to think that my favorite news publication would ever publish anything that isn’t true.