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   From: msnbchomo@espn.com   
      
   CNN’s Don Lemon is just trying to top himself, we guess. On   
   Sunday, he wondered if maybe something supernatural had happened   
   to Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, since why not? And then by   
   Wednesday, he was just throwing questions from Twitter at a   
   panel of experts, because again, this is how science works: take   
   any damn guess that someone came up with while baked and   
   remembering old TV shows, and ask a scientist. And so Lemon   
   asked former U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General   
   Mary Schiavo, with a Serious Journalism look on his face, if   
   maybe there was some merit to tweeted questions about the   
   Bermuda Triangle, Lost, The Twilight Zone, or the airliner maybe   
   vanishing into a black hole.   
      
   “That’s what people are saying,” Lemon said. “I know it’s   
   preposterous — but is it preposterous you think, Mary?”   
      
   Why is anyone making fun of Don Lemon for this? After all, he   
   knows it’s preposterous…but doesn’t it make sense to double-   
   check with a former transportation investigator, just to be on   
   the safe side? You never know, maybe she has some expertise with   
   black-hole-caused crashes that wasn’t previously known.   
      
   So tell us, former inspector general Mary Schiavo, is it   
   preposterous to think a black hole is behind all this?   
      
   “Well, it is. A small black hole would suck in our entire   
   universe so we know it’s not that,” Schiavo said. “The Bermuda   
   Triangle is often weather. And ‘Lost’ is a TV show. So I think —   
   I always like things for which there’s data history, crunch the   
   numbers. So for me those aren’t there.”   
      
   “But I think it’s wonderful that the whole world is trying to   
   help with their theories and I absolutely love their theories,”   
   she added.   
      
   OK, maybe “wonderful” isn’t the word we’d use; we bet the   
   Wonkettariat can come up with a whole bunch of better   
   adjectives. Also, we’re not sure we agree with her a hundred   
   percent on her police work, there, since a “small black hole”   
   wouldn’t “suck in our entire universe.” Our universe has plenty   
   of black holes, probably one at the center of every galaxy, so   
   an itty-bitty one would merely suck in everything in our   
   immediate galactic neighborhood, if that makes you feel any   
   better.   
      
   If the possible debris sighted near Australia turns out to be   
   the actual wreckage of the plane, the black hole theory will not   
   be disproved, of course — there’s every possibility that any   
   wreckage is just what was ejected from the alternate-universe   
   version of the airliner that flew through a wormhole in their   
   universe and emerged into ours.   
      
   Also, we don’t feel too bad for Ms. Schiavo being a little wrong   
   about matter-devouring singularities, seeing as how the one   
   inside Don Lemon’s skull was probably the first she’d ever   
   encountered.   
      
   http://wonkette.com/544550/cnns-don-lemon-has-to-ask-if-a-black-   
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