The National Post published an interesting interview with Welsh author, Jon Ronson.  Ronson’s 2004 book, The Men Who Stare at Goats has been adapted into a feature film and the book is gaining a popularity that it didn’t really experience when it first came out.

The movie starring George Clooney (swoon),  Ewan McGregor (another swoon), Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges is more of a fictional comedy than Ronson’s mostly non-fiction book which is said to contain some potentially damaging information about the U.S. Army. But come on, we all know that playing songs from Barney & Friends is sheer torture.  That’s hardly a state secret.

Ronson hopes that The Men Who Stare at Goats gets people thinking about what goes on behind closed army doors. He says, “It’s all the craziest stuff that’s true. I mean, there actually were a hundred de-bleated goats smuggled into the Special Forces Command Center at Fort Bragg, N.C.; there’s a weapon called the Predator that’s much like the one in the movie; and there’s a connection between the U.S. military and the mass suicide of a cult from San Diego. ”

Read the National Post interview.