You’ve seen the ads. A guy standing next to an expensive sports car parked in front of a mansion that probably isn’t his, shouting about “Discover Passive Income Streams” and “The Secrets Billionaires Don’t Want You to Know.” Ridiculous, right? But here’s the thing. Those internet charlatans are nothing compared to the heavyweights of infamy, the fallen titans who’ve mastered the art of turning disgrace into a profitable side gig. Think Bernie Madoff hawking his “official” financial memorabilia or Harvey Weinstein launching a prison inmate fashion line: orange jumpsuits with sequins, diamond-encrusted handcuffs, and “#MeToo” embroidered slippers. It’s as if they’ve taken notes from every outlandish get-rich-quick campaign and decided…
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Once Upon a Scandal The Hidden Truths Behind Your Favorite Fairy Tales
Once upon a time—before hashtags, hot takes, and headline hysteria—two brothers named Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wandered the cobblestone streets of Germany, collecting stories as dark and tangled as the Black Forest. They didn’t have TikTok, viral memes, or a marketing team pushing “happily ever after” merchandise. What they did have was an uncanny knack for unearthing tales that spoke to the raw human experience: love, betrayal, fear, and even the occasional homicidal pastry chef. The Grimms wrote with purpose, turning oral history into literary art. In contrast, today’s tabloid-style reinterpretations reduce stories to disposable distractions. Any moral lessons quickly drown in sensationalism, while the timeless themes of courage, justice,…
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The Secrets Behind Writing Riveting Television Screenplays You too can become filthy rich by crafting exciting police, courtroom, and crime scene investigation television dramas
Prosecutor: “You killed her, didn’t you!” Defendant: “No, no. I’m innocent.” Prosecutor: “Admit it. Your DNA was all over the maid!” Defendant: “Alright, alright. I did it. Now, please. Let go of my throat.” There’s no secret to writing riveting screenplays for television. I should know. I’ve written thousands of them. From Naked Homicide and The Streets of Wichita, Kansas to every conceivable flavor of Law & Order and CSI series known to man. I’ve won 37 Emmys, 15 Golden Globes and have been nominated for more than a dozen Academy Awards, 6 Tonys, and 3 Grammys. But, as I get on in years, I feel compelled to share some…
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Great Achievements in Medical Fraud How the foot operated breast enlarger and Recto Rotor revolutionized medicine
If you were diagnosed at the turn of the century with lumbago, puking fever, black vomit, consumption, decrepitude, falling sickness, milk leg, ship fever, softening of the brain, St. Vitas dance, trench mouth, dropsy or heaven forbid, dyscrasy then you were in big trouble. Not only did the “modern” medical community misunderstand most of these diseases, they were also clueless as to how to treat them… until medical fraud appeared. To the Rescue Facing a life of interminable pain and suffering, many sufferers of these diseases resorted to hundreds of unfounded medical treatments – sometimes they worked and sometimes they didn’t. Here’s a brief list of some of the more…
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Sticky Bomb Threat Foiled How the TSA thwarts bombs made from Diet Coke and Mentos mints
Los Angeles, California – American authorities announced yesterday that they had successfully thwarted an attempt by terrorists to detonate a sticky bomb made from a 1-liter bottle of Diet Coke and Mentos candy mints, preventing what could have been the messiest attack on U.S. air carriers in aviation history. The Transportation Security Administration first became aware of the threat after observing a number of men of Middle Eastern descent carrying cases of the popular drink onto six different planes. “At first, we were focused on what was in their carry-on luggage,” said Henry Wilkinson, TSA’s Chief of Domestic Terrorism. “We were looking for mainstream explosives like jelled nitroparafin, metal perchlorate…
