Two items this Sunday demonstrating, if it was ever necessary, that Americans don't hold a monopoly on intolerance and wingnut pathologies:
-- There's a far-right British group calling itself the English Defence League that is fighting the "Islamification" of British cities. These fearful souls are concerned about Sharia law being imposed in the UK and are forging links with the crackpots in this country with similar pathologies (hello, Krazy Kat Bolton and Pammy Jugs Geller).
-- Our dear friends in Canada apparently have their own Richard Nixon in the form of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to "Harperland," a book by journalist Lawrence Martin. Harper "is a leader of bad faith...who will put politics ahead of the national good every single day of the week," according to Martin. Plus he's got a nasty, vindictive streak that sounds more Nixonian than Canadian.
