Hi, everyone. Haven’t had time to update the site lately, as I’ve had my hands full working on edits for the new book, due out in March.

But if you’re seized by a desire to return to the exotic carnival chronicled here–in which politicians, neo-Confederate newspaper editors and Religious Right moralists play games with Sun Myung Moon, the Washington Times publisher who describes himself as Lord of the Second Advent–then you could do much worse than to visit Scoobie Davis’s great new blog, The Real Sun Myung Moon.

Come to think of it, it might have been Scoobie (the SoCal filmmaker, surfer and party crasher) who first drew my attention to Moon. He is thus indirectly responsible for the fact that I recently found myself at an airy hotel ballroom in Burlingame, Calif., watching a roomful of people drink strange juice, provided by the Unification Church in packets the size of the creamer cups at Denny’s.

That tour (though not the stop in Burlingame) was perplexingly attended by Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative scold and author of The Enemy At Home. One man who wants to know why is Rick Perlstein, author of the terrific Barry Goldwater biography Before the Storm.

While you are at it, also take a look at Christopher S. Stewart’s new piece in Conde Nast Portfolio on the church and its guns.

Oh, and the Washington Times is hiring, if you want to edit the Reverend Moon’s newspaper. It’s sort of sad, it doesn’t seem as if anyone wants to.