Slow Burn

I have a lot of questions about this Koran burning event set for Saturday. So, in no particular order:

For it to have lived up to the hype, the fire would have had to be really big. Where were they getting all the Korans? Are they buying them en masse? Doesn’t that bring the laws of supply and demand into play, i.e. if they bought a bunch of Korans, wouldn’t publishers respond to the increased demands… by printing more of them?

I’ve  thought it was a bad idea, not to mention one that flies in the face of Christian teaching, but I don’t think the pastor bears the sole blame for this. Now that his “demands” have been publicized (not building the mosque at Ground Zero), why hasn’t as much pressure been placed by the Obama administration on the imam to move the mosque as it has on the pastor to stop the Koran burning?

For that matter, the church’s website was taken down and the FBI visited the pastor today. Given the church’s out-of-the-mainstream brand of Christianity, does anybody see this eventually going the way of the Branch Davidians?

And why do I get the feeling that we haven’t heard the last of any of this?