Wingnuttery On Parade

Oklahoma authorities have charged Oklahoma Tea Party leader and U.N. conspiracy flake Al "Tinfoil Al" Gerhart with blackmail after he sent an e-mail to State Senator Cliff Branan, threatening Branan with a smear campaign if he failed to introduce a batsh*t crazy bill about a U.N. conspiracy regarding sustainability.  A generation or two ago, folks like Tinfoil Al would be playing pinochle in a mental ward, but such is the sad state of our mental health treatment today.

Conspiracies are the means of keeping the far right fringe perpetually angry and paranoid about something, and running to gun shops to stockpile weapons before brigades of Kenyan U.N. soldiers descend on their basement apartments.