There are lots of nuts around

The latest Tom Cruise eruption has drawn attention to the actor's religious beliefs (to use a polite term), so Salon is doing a multi-part series on Scientology and its latest most famous adherent. Yesterday was an overview, with lots of interesting speculation linking Cruise's recent outbursts with his, uh, faith, and today Laura Miller issues a game review of the sect's founding document, "Dianetics."

One suffers for one's faith, so from Miller's admirably reserved and clear-headed analysis, it is possible to guess that her faith in prose written in English -- not to say literature -- is at least as strong as any believer's. For suffer she did, judging by her piece.

Laura Miller, Tom Cruise, StarryShine, Dianetics, Scientology