If there is an evolved human impulse toward belief in the divine, surely it is most purely manifested, not in the lethal austerities of the various monoculturetheisms, but in the passion with which the citizen-as-acolyte follows the infinitely never-changing everchangingness of the celebrities of the numinous?

Isn't to be Britney, or to be Hilary [sorry, Lindsay], to be as a Goddess? And it's a win-win situation for everbody: Read more…