Primary loyalties, stuck trucks, found objects, satanic mayors

• I wouldn't want to be this Stutter guy.
• I was about to write that Robert Kaplan's Atlantic piece, It's the Tribes, Stupid, with its analysis of the tribe as the unit of primary loyalty, sounded awfully similar to the arguments set forth in Brave New War. But it looks like John Robb himself has already blogged about it.
• It was a chilly day in Portland today, but nothing compared to what this poor Russian trucker was going through.
• This seems rather odd: a small town Arkansas mayor resigns, claiming that in the past he had been kidnapped by a Satanic cult.