Yea: We've Got Bigger Things On Our Mind

"Are we sort of to be sacrificed in dribbles of twos and thirteens? The present status quo alternative of complacence is rather frightening and amoral in typically postmodern fashion. About every three months since 9/11 we have witnessed another foiled plot (23-4 by now), or a lone-wolf sort of attack on a shopping mall, Jewish center, military installation, or university campus (20 plus), whether a shooting or a run-over.

The apparent logic is that the plots will continue to be foiled (while we caricature the Bush illiberal Homeland Security policies that allow us to be so vigilant), and the lone wolves will kill someone far distant and in twos and threes, or as in the Maryland Sniper and Fort Hood cases, tens and thirteens—until another 9/11 comes around and for two to three years shocks us out of our pretensions."

-- Victor Davis Hanson, painting a pretty accurate picture of how society generally deals with spiritually-inspired and/or cult crime - whether it be the attack on Fort Hood or what occurred in James Arthur Ray's NewAge sweatlodge or death by homeopath, etc. - which at least shows somebody other than I can see it (whew!) including folks over at Pajamas Media.