This week in conspiracy (4/26)

'Allo 'allo! The forces of goof have again assaulted the gates of reason, only to be beaten back. I wonder if they will try again next week?

• PBS has an upcoming Frontline (tomorrow) about the Vaccine Wars. Orac is not optimistic.
• It seems that the right can't decide whether or not the Obama Administration is plotting with or against the banking industry.
• Charlie Rangel: Retirer, usurper of democracy. Ha, as they say, ha.
• There is more conspiracy on this page than I suggest in the phrase: "What's wrong with Oklahoma?"
• Are you checking your Antichrist score cards?
• New video game draws on New World Order storyline.
• British political candidate gets talking points from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
• "This Isn't Second Amendment Defense; This Is Mental Illness."
• The world watches our weirdness.
• The Palestinian Telegraph, weirdest publication ever, says that the US nuked the middle east.
• SPLC publishes what the right has been calling a "hit list." No, that's what Operation Rescue does.
• Ooh! The ACTA treaty! I have no idea what that is! That's probably how they want it to be.
• Earth Day is communism. I saw a lot of Christian blogs/crap outlets decrying Earth Day as pagan spirituality. Come on, lunatics! Religious or not? You can't have it both ways.
• Vibe's top 13 hip-hop conspiracies.
• My new home state is batshit, as it now protects us from compulsory implantation of microchips into the taint. I'm not joking or exaggerating.
• White House: "Birthers are crazy."
• Theories about the Polish airline crash. Oddly, nobody questions whether or not they crashed because they were distracted trying to screw in light bulbs. (I can make that joke as my family is from Warsaw.)
• Google + Democrats = Republicans making shit up.
• AWESOME Icelandic volcano theories.
• Media Matters reports on the strange theories about Obama deliberately crashing the economy to implement the Value Added Tax. Fears of economic manipulation is a cornerstone of conspiracism going back at least to the Knights Templar. (I just can't think of anything earlier right now.)
• Holy shit. I'm agreeing with a column at Fox. HOLY FUCK FOXNEWS HAS PERFECTED MIND CONTROL!!! Stay tuned for a write-up here about Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies, by the way.
• iPhone leak: conspiracy theory or drunken idiot?
• From TIME: Republicans remember Guy "Psycho" Fawkes.
• Canada confident the US will not crumble because of idiotic patriot movement. (Interview with Chip Barlet.)

I apologize for my terseness lately, but I'm pressed for time these last few weeks. I am a sparrowfart away from catching up with grading. Then I will luxuriate in the glory that is my own writing, but until then, I must be brief and punchy.

HJ