Before I say anything else about it, let me be really clear that mostly I am just happy that the woman who was taken hostage a few months back by the courthouse shooter in Atlanta wasn't hurt or killed. Her story of talking the guy into surrendering is pretty amazing, no matter what.

But it does add an interesting twist to the tale to learn today, on the eve of her book's publication, that during the hostage ordeal, she gave the guy some meth from the stash she had in her apartment. It's interesting because her spin -- and that of the Christian right which has embraced her since then -- is that she prayed with the man and read to him from The Purpose Driven Life, and THAT is why he gave up and let her go.

I wonder how all the evangelicals who have been holding her up as a miraculous icon will react to this new detail.