Every Tuesday night since she made it to Hollywood, we're full up.

The place erupted. People came here from Virginia. They came up from South Carolina. They're just supporting someone local.

It was wild. You would think you were at a football game.

The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when a fateful exit poll question on 'moral values' ignited a take-no-prisoners political grab by moral zealots.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.