Kieran Healy

WTF?

I know I’m way late with this, but I must have missed it on my travels last month. The Gadflyer brings me the story that the Rev Sun Myung Moon had himself crowned Emporer of the United States and declared the Messiah at a ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in the presence and with the enthusiastic participation of a bipartisan contingent of Members of Congress. No, really. Did this even make the newspapers?

Bipartisanship in action: Rev. Moon annointed Messiah

[Via Keiran Healy.] According to John Gorenfeld of the Gadflyer. elected officials of both parties convened in the Dirksen senate office complex to anoint the Rev. Sun Myung Moon as the Messiah. The ceremony was conducted with decorum befitting such

Rev. Moon’s Coming-Out Party

Kieran Healy puts it pithily:[T]he Rev. Sun Myung Moon had himself crowned Emporer of the United States and declared the Messiah at a ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in the presence and with the enthusiastic participation of a