ALEX BEAM, REVISITED: According to this report in the New York Times, another mainline news columnist has been taken in by a rather obvious satire.

Now, anyone can be taken in. But read the names involved in this story and see if it shouldn’t have set off some alarm bells somewhere.

Heck, I checked out this story about an outfit seeking adoptive parents for frozen embryos because it sounded like a parody. Apparently, though, it’s true — or at least they didn’t ‘fess up when I phoned ’em, which to me is the difference between parody and, well, fraud. Here’s a link to their website, and here’s the Deroy Murdock column on “microscopic-Americans” that made me wonder.