She appears to have forgotten her good manners. It recently ejected a female member of the Turkish parliament for wearing a head-scarf, considered an Islamicist symbol in Turkey. Hardly the sort of folks that might be candidates for membership in some sort of fundamentalist Islamic alliance in the Balkans. Hayden is either trying to take advantage of the general public's relative ignorance on all matters Balkan, or is revealing his own. Either way, Hayden has neutralized his own credibility as a rational and well-informed participant in the debate over the NATO bombings.
Bees do it.
Salt Lake City Weekly piece on vegan high school kids in Salt Lake City that you linked to was missing an important bit of context. I have heard countless stories from SLC kids who have had beers knocked out of their hands at shows or have even been attacked by groups of Straight Edgers who are so opposed to drinking, drugs and smoking that they are willing to do pretty much anything to inflict their beliefs on others. And, in recent years, vegetarianism and veganism have been added to the spectrum of Straight Edge tenets. The tension between Straight Edgers and non-Straight Edgers in SLC is real and very problematic despite what the author of this article would have you believe. The school board was responding to this tension.