The Yes Men Fix the World is a great movie

August 11, 2009 by shelter
Filed under: Hollywood and Co. 

This week’s Media Mayhem column from my gig at the Mother Nature Network:

Truth is stranger than fiction, they say. And, sometimes, fiction can be truer than truth.

OK. That’s a weird idea to wrap your mind around. Then again, the exploits of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano are a bit weird. And difficult to wrap your mind around.


Bichlbaum and Bonnano are The Yes Men, two anti-corporate pranksters whom most people probably have heard about by catching an odd headline or hearing some bizarre snip-it on a cable news show. Such as this CNN report from 2004:

Read the rest at the Mother Nature Network.

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