
The Chihuahua Men of Sirius-7 walk among us! (At least the caption writer had the integrity to make appropriate use of quotation marks.) It's one of the oldest tricks in the Handbook of Lazy Journalism : Take a current hot trend or media property, find a way to tie it back to some tangentially-related wire story, and from there stitch together a Frankenstein's monster consisting of equal parts press release and "news of the weird" item: Joe Q. Jackson's skin has a pronounced greenish hue -- not because of gamma radiation, [...]