These are my undigested internests for March 9th through April 3rd:
- Rise of Hungary’s far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing echoes of the 1940s – Telegraph – As Hungary prepares to vote in a crucial election, the far-Right Jobbik party expects great success – to the consternation of democrats and those old enough to remember the fascist past.
- t r u t h o u t | Welcome to Glennbeckistan – What if the Tea Party ruled? Imagine a land, let's call it Glennbeckistan, where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots hold a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, sit in the governor's mansion, and control most local governments. It's a place so out of sync with the rest of the nation that states' rights and even secession are always on the agenda. It's a place where gun-ownership trumps all other rights, climate change is considered an insidious socialist conspiracy, and a miscarriage can be investigated as a potential crime. Welcome to Utah.
- French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph – A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
- Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Scott Atran, Terrorists, and Global Guerrillas – Individuals now mostly radicalize horizontally with their peers, rather than vertically through institutional leaders or organizational hierarchies. They do so mostly in small groups of friends — from the same neighborhood or social network — or even as loners who find common cause with a virtual internet community.
- The Five Varieties of Bad Political Thinking – Reason Magazine – “You start by reading your horoscope in the newspaper; then you dabble in chakra balancing or feng shui, saying that it is important to keep an open mind; after a while your mind is so open that your brains fall out, and you read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion without noticing anything amiss.”
