Straw men are known not just for being easy targets to get beat up on, but also for not having any brains.

How else to describe those irrepressible Loose Change boys? Not only do they hock snake oil remedies and apocalypse-prep kits on the Genesis Communications Network with their silly radio show, but apparently they took it upon themselves to "debate" Rolling Stone's resident mockingbird Matt Taibbi. See the last question in this Q&A with Taibbi.

Honestly, if anyone still thinks the Loose Change boys are legit, I invite you to enlighten me as to how on earth you manage to do so!

Dylan, Jason, and Korey: Thanks again guys for doing such a GREAT job for the movement--if you're not appearing in a BBC hit piece with Uncle Fetzer and Alex Jones it seems you are busy providing guys like Matt Taibbi material for his truth suppression. To call you righteous visionaries wouldn't do you justice. No, really. Guess what? You chose poorly.

In any case, after months of chiding Taibbi in each and every column of his published on alternet.org about how he promised he would write a column addressing the physics claims of the 9/11 truth movement, it's nice to see that he has finally provided an explanation of sorts. He was simply waiting for the Loose Change boys' schedule to free up so that they would help him save some face. Again, kids, you are SUCH a credit to the movement and not at all the little disinfo shills you so convincingly pretend to be.

You’ve probably already been asked this too many times, but, are you planning to write the third installment of your 9/11 series? If not, why?
- Dallas Redig

Hi Dallas. I’ll eventually publish this written debate I had with the Loose Change guys via email. It was pretty funny stuff. At one point I asked them if they’d made even a single phone call before they ran that stuff about the hijackers still being alive. Their answer was that they had made some calls, but “couldn’t get through” to anyone. Then when I tried to point out that not getting through to anyone in your research is usually a good time not to publish your unverified material, they just ignored me and started babbling about how the original congressional report about 9/11 had 28 pages redacted, etc. etc. etc. It wasn’t really a debate, it was like one angry non sequitur after another. Eventually they dropped the debate in the middle – I haven’t heard from them in a while.

But I’ll get back to it eventually. I should say that the hardest thing for me in dealing with the Truthers is this feeling of being intimidated by how ridiculous they are. It would take a comic genius to really do them justice and the fear of falling short of that can be paralyzing. If you’ve ever seen the movie Eating Raoul there’s this scene where Paul Bland throws an electric bug-zapper into a hot tub full of swingers and they all just sort of fall naked and limp all at once. It’s hilarious. Somebody, and it may very well not be me, is going to write the electric bug-zapper of 9/11-debunker essays. But it’s going to have to be an inspired effort, not something you just toss off in one night. I really wish Mark Twain were alive for that reason. A Jim Fetzer’s Literary Offenses would potentially be one of the funniest things ever written in the English language.