Off topic: Recent reading

In our recent travels from here to there and back again, we allowed ourselves to splurge some hard won dosh in the airport bookshop. The book below is one of those we ended up with; THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS by Jon Ronson.




This book purports to tell the (true) story of how some high placed people in the USA military came to believe in some very odd things (staring at goats with a view to killing them is just one example). What is even stranger is that many of these odd beliefs have been acted upon recently; for example in the treatment of prisoners in Iraq.

The book is a great read and if even half of it is true then the US government is far wierder than you would ever guess. It seriously makes us wonder what happens here in the UK.

It talks about American Generals attempting (and failing) to walk through walls, levitate and burst the heart of animals from a distance. Very, very strange!

Check it out at your bookshop; the ISBN is 0-33043526-4 and it should cost you £10.99. All you conspiracy theorists will love it!

The Editor