I guess it’s obvious that if some people will believe Senator Barack Obama is a Muslim terrorist, other people will believe pretty much anything. Case in point: Lark News, a satirical Christian newspaper, recently published a “story” about how Obama has healed hundreds of people with physical ailments:

“Ginny McCallum, 43, who has been confined to a wheelchair for much of her adult life, came to hear presidential candidate Barack Obama speak at the University of Texas. Afterward she found herself in a wheelchair access breezeway as Obama and his entourage exited the arena. The candidate spotted her, came over, grabbed her hand and pulled her up. She found herself standing for the first time in eleven years.”

What’s the result? Hundreds of people believing that Obama has miraculous powers. Chain e-mails spread like wildfire through inboxes of mild-aged web users everywhere. Believe it or not, there are likely people in this great world that actually believe that drinking Obama’s pee will allow one to live forever.

Unfortunately, extremism will swing from far left to far right, and you’ll get swamped by both sides. Now we get to share the internet with both kinds of lunatics.

Ah, the internet. Is there anything it can’t do?