Who put the LSD in the tea?

Or, how a financial crisis caused largely by an anti-regulatory and pro-greed philosophy, combined with the poor evaluative skills, gullibility, and low information levels possessed by the unreflective, have been half-baked into a noxious mix of paranoia and misdirected anti-government rage. (Hint: what they really should oppose is the prevalence and effect of money in the political system -- proposals to limit which are usually birthed by Democrats and killed by conservative Supreme Court justices. A blind No-Government-At-All stance is a formula for chaos and the product of stupidity -- or at least a product of the "I haven't given the consequences of my position even a half-second's thought" approach, which is essentially the same.)

Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged - The New York Times

Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right - The New York Times

LATE ADDITION: An Irish Mirror - The New York Times