User:Cassingham

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Randy C Cassingham (1959 in California, USA) is an American online columnist, humorist, publisher, and speaker. He is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been the keynote speaker at several of The Skeptics Society's annual conferences.

Cassingham is the author of the weekly syndicated news column This is True (founded 1994), which Cassingham made available by email subscription to become one of the first for-profit emailed newsletters on the Internet. (In January 1997, an expanded paid version became one of the first paid emailed newsletters on the Internet.) "This is True" features several actual news items each week of unbelievable-yet-true character, with each story capped by a pithy one-liner which is "humorous, ironic or opinionated."

Cassingham is the creator of the "Get Out of Hell Free" card (his response to a This is True reader who complained that a story about Feng Shui was "anti-Christian" and told him he was going to hell), the Internet Spam Primer, and several other web sites. Cassingham also started the "HeroicStories" e-mail newsletter (founded 1999), which tells the stories of remarkable acts of kindness and courage. Management of "HeroicStories" has since been turned over to others.

Or, at least, so begins my Wikipedia page, with a couple of accuracy edits that I'm not allowed to make there.