Skipping Ever Closer to Armageddon...
Probably the first blogging author Soft Skull put under contract, Michael Standaert, has just launched yet another blog (he has a rather nice stable in fact.)
But this one, Skipping Towards Armageddon, this is rather closely related to the book he is doing with us, the eponymous Skipping Towards Armageddon
Over the coming weeks, it will encompass all you ever need to know about the man who not only invented the Left Behind series (over 75 million books sold) but invented political Evangelicism—from the Institute for Creation Research back in 1972, to the first Evangelical organization to get involved in electoral politics (Californians for Biblical Morality) to the Moral Majority (Lahaye persuaded Falwell to create it, and served at the organization's first chairman). James Dobson is nothing on LaHaye (and LaHaye's wife Beverly, founder of Concerned Women of America), nothing.
The book publishes in Febuary 2006 and you can get a hint of the book from Michael's article in the NthPosition, but we suggest you head over to Michael's blog now to give yourself a crash course on the fundamentalist Right.