This week in conspiracy...

Sorry about being a little late. (Ahem.) My schedule is completely off this week. Next week things should be better. But I make no promises. Also, I am omitting all of the dozens of March Madness conspiracy theories. The reason I am doing this is because they are not about anything important.

Our first item is not exactly conspiracy theory, per se, but it is strange enough. Police in Northern India arrested two men for conspiring to release bees into the crowd at a rally held by Chief Minister Mayawati. Apparently, nobody was phased in the slightest.

George W. Bush thanks 9/11 conspiracy theorists for having faith in him. From Newsbiscuit (satire).

Orly Taitz, birther, intends to run for California Secretary of State.

FoxNews: When news breaks, they fix it.

A lawmaker in Japan with bizarre 9/11 beliefs is reprimanded by his party bosses. That's nice for a change. Maybe the Republicans should take the lying racist nutjob teabaggers to task? Or at least say they are wrong?

The Southern Poverty Law Center released an important issue of Intelligence Report called "Rage on the Right." Read it.

Ground Zero of Goof, Prison Planet, "exposes" the Southern Poverty Law Center. Don't bother reading it!

Water for health care votes conspiracy? Fox can lick me.

With the republication of The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), Thomas Szasz "manages to insult everyone working in the mental health field, families of the mentally ill, women, Christians, and Jews, as well as those suffering from mental illness."

Are racist liberals infiltrating the Teabaggers to make them look bad? I've come across this one in two places (see the sidebar in the NPR article).

Lastly, a couple of reports of violence following on the heals of the health care bill. The first is from the ADL, the second is from Salon.

My opinion is that things in the conspiracy world got a little bit worse in the last few weeks. Now rightist thugs are turning to violence. Stay tuned.

HJ