Creative Loafing’s blog has a rundown of the various bat$&!% crazy conspiracy theories on why former state Sen. Nancy Schaefer was not murdered by her husband, who then shot himself. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the dark underbelly where the Internet and the fringe right converge.

Meanwhile, a Facebook page devoted to the extremely far-fetched, to put it politely, idea that DFCS assassinated Schaefer has grown to 351 members, including state Rep. Alan Powell, D-Hartwell. I’ve asked Powell whether he really believes it.

A Buffalo, N.Y., preacher has started a Facebook group devoted to strange conspiracy theories surrounding former state Sen. Nancy Schaefer’s death. The group’s description:

Senator(Ga) Nancy Schaefer was an outsanding (sic) spokesperson for Family Values and is in favor of bringing common sense back into our American Nation and Government. She was an advocate for Moms, Dads and children and their rights as human beings. She had taken on our corrupt judicial system and governmental agencis (sic) like Child Protective Services. She has seen the toll on American lives from brutal governmental abuses of power.

She is now gone. We seek the Truth of her death.

I just finished an interview with Rep. Paul Broun about the effectiveness of the stimulus act. More on that later, but the quotable Broun had a quip about the Obama Administration’s economic policies: “Voodoo economics,” he called them.

The phrase was originally coined by George H.W. Bush in the 1980 primary to describe supply-sider Ronald Reagan's fuzzy math. Broun defined it a bit differently.

“You have to be a dead man walking around with no soul to believe the economic ideas they’re putting forward,” he said.

Kim Jong Ox?

Georgia is not the only state with a bill pending that would ban implanting microchips into people without their permission.

The Virginia legislature is considering a similar bill, and lawmakers there are considerably more up-front about their intentions.

The Washington Post quotes the bill’s sponsor, Del. Mark L. Cole, as saying, "My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times. Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."

First it was the banks, then the car companies, then health care and now the Internet. President Obama is socializing everything.

At least, that's what Mike Evans, the former GDOT board member who's now running for Nathan Deal's North Georgia congressional seat, said in a news release today. Here is a link to the bill he's talking about.

CUMMING, Ga. -- Mike Evans, Republican candidate for Georgia's Ninth Congressional District, on Saturday denounced legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia that gives the President the power to unplug Americans' private computers during a "cyber security emergency."

"This administration has hijacked the nation's auto industry, the banks, the insurance companies and is in the process of nationalizing health care," Evans said. "Now it wants to unplug Americans' private computers and deny citizens the right to free speech."

Let’s talk qualifying.

We’ll have two very interesting Athens-Clarke Commission races to follow: Elton Dodson versus Mike Hamby in District 10 and Red Petrovs versus Ed Robinson in District 6.

I know Petrovs far better than Robinson because I’ve been covering OneAthens and I wasn’t around for the 2004 election. This will be a race of contrasting ideas and styles where there’s a clear-cut choice.

Petrovs is a tough-talking, no-nonsense kind of guy who is conservative, especially fiscally, but is driven by facts and not ideology. His voice would be unique on the commission. He could get stuck with the Chamber of Commerce tag – the kiss of death in recent elections – but he says the chamber’s changed so much since Larry McKinney left that it’s not such an albatross anymore.