Fun fact: James Tracy love LOVES reggae.

While James Tracy's two baby daughters vied for their father's attention on a recent morning outside of May Memorial Unitarian Church in Boca Raton, one of the country's most-hated professors thought for a moment.

"I'd say if given the chance, apology might be something I'd be interested in," said Tracy, who theorized two months ago whether the Sandy Hook shootings had occurred as the media had portrayed it -- or even at all.

But despite the sweeping condemnation and that his comments helped incite harassment of some parents of Sandy Hook victims, he expressed recalcitrance. He's convinced that at some level, he's right. Something strange happened in the coverage of Sandy Hook. The government, the media, the corporations -- they planned something. Though he's not sure what.

What's more, he said, it's odd that if his musings had so seriously affected any of the parents -- why hadn't they lashed out at him? Why hasn't he received any angry phone calls? If he were one of the parents, he said, he would have been screaming.

"Strange," Tracy said. Then let the thought drop.

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"Hi, there. Wanna see my ranch?"

Late last year, an Oxbow executive named Kirby Martensen arrived at an isolated splash of mountainous land near Aspen to tour Bill Koch's "19th century western town." Bear Ranch, he soon learned, was accessible by only one road and didn't have cell-phone reception. No way in or out.

The entire town sitting, on 5,000 acres, was owned by Bill Koch -- Martensen's boss.

The two men met, toured the ranch by helicopter to admire Koch's 19th-century buildings, and ate lunch, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Northern California. Then, Martensen was taken into a guarded room, where he was interrogated for hours to investigate his alleged plot to defraud Oxbow, fired, and put on a private plane back to Oakland.

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Not in this trailer park...

When someone pulled David Armstrong's rainbow flag off of the front of his trailer, the first thing he did was tell his landlord, who instead of investigating the matter told him some residents complained about the flag and that he should display it in back of the property.

Why not just ask the guy to get back in closet while you're at it?

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James Tracy, the tenured Florida Atlantic University professor who espoused conspiracy theories regarding Sandy Hook, says FAU has opened an investigation on him and wants to meet with him next week.

According to the school's student magazine, University Press, Tracy believes the university is feeling pressure from its donors.

Tracy, who has remained defiant under media scrutiny over his comments, still clings to his right to free speech as a reason why FAU would be a bad school if it were to fire him.

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In a shocking twist to the James Tracy story comes the news that James Tracy isn't backing down from his comments about Sandy Hook.

"I think that the entire country mourned about Sandy Hook and yet, once again, the investigation that journalistic institutions should have actually carried out never took place as far as I'm concerned,' Tracy told CBS12 cameras when confronted on the issue.

Sure America mourned the horrid tragedy of little children being systematically massacred by someone with a machine gun inside an elementary school. But the real travesty here is that the news people didn't dig deep enough. Like, for example, why didn't the parents talk to the media right away after learning the news that their baby had been blown away with a machine gun? I'll tell you why. Because of government super robots! DO YOUR JOB, NEWS.

Such a free thinker, this guy. Such a rebel.

See also:
-James Tracy, FAU Professor, Says Sandy Didn't Happen; Revels In Notoriety
-The James Tracy Saga: Students Rally Behind Embattled Professor
-FAU's James Tracy: More Media Conspiracies and Lunacy. Fire This Guy Fast.

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Students defend Tracy's ravings as just Tracy being Tracy

In the wake of yesterday's damning and international condemnation of James Tracy's allegations that the Sandy Hook massacre hadn't happened -- though apparently our commenters agree with him -- one group has flocked to the embattled professor's aid: his students.

Yesterday, his former student, Ryan Cortes, who's taken three of Tracy's classes, wasn't surprised by the professor's bombastic opinions. Most of Tracy's students say he may have incendiary views, but admire his courage in voicing them and exercising his free speech, said Cortes, who wrote a piece yesterday covering student reaction.

See also:
- FAU's James Tracy: More Media Conspiracies and Lunacy. Fire This Guy Fast.
- James Tracy, FAU Professor, Says Sandy Didn't Happen; Revels In Notoriety

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It's slam poetry, motherf**ker!

So it's come to this.

The Sun Sentinel, that bastion of muckrakery and insight, has now begun dabbling in what appears to be -- yes -- freestyle beat poetry about the tragic arc of the Christmas tree. Its merits aren't immediately discernible, because the poem hides among the column inches. Nonetheless, they're there. And we're here to say, Tina Susman of Tribune Newspapers, we like your style. And metaphor/rhyming scheme.

Here's a little taste of what ran in a Sun Sentinel issue earlier this week.

It's beginning to look a lot "holiday" tree, said many people like Christmas, that warmple are "not happy" with this and fuzzy time of year, year's tree-lighting. In addition, when adults engage in pub-to not being scheduled in adlic verbal brawls aboutvance, the event was not held whether to call Christmas in the evening, when more tree a Christmas tree.

My God. Who else needs some acid?

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Radio blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh opened his face hole again and said that it's pretty friggin obvious that Mitt Romney is going to win the election tonight. And not just win it, but win it by a landslide!

Despite every single poll showing a tight race, Romney's actually going to win this thing via a blowout, according to Rush.

Because polls, statistics, variables and data doesn't matter.

Know what really tells us who's going to win?

FOOTBALL!

See also: Rush Limbaugh Thinks Chris Christie Is a Fat Fool

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined forces to help that state recover. Christie then made some news when he appeared on Fox & Friends and the Three Trogs that host that show asked him if he would pretty please have a photo op with Mittington Romney around the devastated areas in his state because it's election season and Christie is a Republican and Romney needs to get in on some hot pictures of homes under water and dead-people action.

The governor said: "I don't know, nor do I care. I've got a job to do here in New Jersey that's bigger than presidential politics. And I could care less about any of that stuff. I've got 2.4 million people without power, I have devastation on the shore... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me."

Steve Doocy's face said: "Heavens to murgatroyd! How ruuude!"

Christie also dared to praise Obama for his hard work. ON FOX! ZOMG!

Well, good ol' pill-poppin' conservative radio blowfish blowhard Rush Limbaugh didn't like Christie's suddenly being BFFs with Obummer and went on his show and called the Republican governor "fat" and a "fool," thus breaking the IRONY THRESHOLD and imploding all space and time. He also said people shouldn't listen to Christie because of The Gay.

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You may or may not know it, but today is officially Talk Like A Pirate Day.

It's silly, odd and slightly annoying, particularly with your co-worker walking around the office and saying, "Arrgghh!" all day like an asshole.

But, whatever, it's all in good fun. Certainly Lake Worth Mayor Pam Triolo seems to think so. She issued a proclamation Tuesday night declaring Wednesday International Talk Like a Pirate Day (even though it was already established nationally since 1995, but hidey-ho) and urging residents to celebrate in "a hearty, fun-loving way."

It's a whimsy silly little proclamation designed to bring some light-hardheartedness to the people of Lake Worth.

Well, one former city commissioner got all Debbie Downer about that and says that the mayor is being frivolous with her position in government and decided to speak her mind on all these pirate talky shenanigans.

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