"I'm shockingly shocked as well!"
Me too, or three or four. I tried to read the story, but it is too strange. I'm sorry for the Phoenix brothers or any other people who were unwitting victims of this cult. But I will say that the great, make that GREAT california desert is still a desert, and unrelenting.
There was a story here last night about a group of touchy-feely Lefties that formed 'poly-amorous' families where everyone was boinking everyone else. Of course, this '60's relic movement was frought with the inevitable jealousies and divisions, but still, some of these freaks just cannot see the light of day even 40 years later.
Just like the need to intitutionalize the insane, I honest-to-God favor a partitioning of the country or ceding someplace like Hawaii to the Left and calling it done. If these toads want to copulate in the mud and kill each other, then let them do it someplace else - France maybe.