Five years ago today, bored, lonely conspiracy nuts got a reason to live
Sept. 10, 2001: Thousands of conspiracy nuts, praying they could find some minute, undiscovered detail in a NASA moon-landing picture, spent most nights crying themselves to sleep. Their future looked bleak.
Sept. 11, 2001: Before the second tower hit the ground, the first Sept. 11 conspiracy theory was born, and thousands of unemployed guys living in their parents’ basements suddenly had a reason to live again. And make some money while they were at it.
“I was there. I saw it.”
–James S. Robbins, National Review
–WKW