Global News Snapshot, March 2006

Jesse Walker | 3.23.2006 10:07 AM

George Clooney has a ghost-blogger.

There's enough weird crap in the U.S. patent pipeline to keep a stand-up comic supplied with material.

And in northeastern India, the BBC reports, "some 200 people have been killed in Assam in the past five years for allegedly practicing witchcraft."

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.