(Cult) Context

On the micro level, it looks like Scientology killed someone else. 

On the macro level, it looks like Mickey Kaus noticed something about the president:

"Obama isn’t vague or incoherent. He’s quite precise about where he wants to go–namely back to something like what we had three decades ago. If his means don’t come close to matching his ends, if they even subvert them, that seems a more troubling, almost pathological mismatch, in which liberalism becomes a sort of cargo cult whose mechanisms have zero hope of achieving the desired results."

And here in the middle, everybody shrugs because they're listening to smart people,...