News of the Wierd:
I have been following this story about the Children of God /the Family since it broke in the Tucson paper last week, I don't know why, exactly. I'm just obsessed because it is such a classically tragic story. Sins of the fathers, and all that. icle is just the latest, for the also-obsessed, see the moving on site for the children who have managed to leave. or just google on Children of God. This was the cult which River Phoenix's parents were/are associated with.

Fringe Group at Center of Deaths: "Almost 20 years after a fringe religious group renounced practices that included child sexual abuse and incest, a murder-suicide carried out in two states has brought the group's sordid past back to the fore. "