The manufactured phoniness of this bogeyman known as 'ISIS' is obvious in so many ways - (see related links at bottom of this article). For today's bit of ISIS-debunking, your child-at-heart reporter here harkens back to the exciting comic-book tales of 'The Amazing Spider Man' -- the coolest super-hero ever!

Apart from the fact that both Spider Man and ISIS Man are children's stories; and apart from the fact that both wear full facial masks; there is a third thing the two have in common -- a commonality which gives the game away by exposing their respective identities.

As those of you who read the comics as children, or saw either the TV cartoons or the more recent Hollywood movie versions know; Spider Man is really Peter Parker -- a teen-aged nerd who works part-time as a photographer for The Daily Bugle. Month after month, as Spider Man dispatches one super-villain after another, Peter Parker amazes his cigar-chomping boss, J. Jonah Jameson, with his uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time to capture photos of Spider Man in action. The photos pay well for young Parker.