Before you dismiss me as a Muslim-bashing Quran burner, read on. And yes, I agree that Jones, the pastor of a Florida church who threatened to burn copies of the Quran to protest the proposed mosque being built “at” ground zero, is way over his 15-minutes-of-fame allotment.

Having said that, I’ll add this: stories like that about Jones are what columnists live for. And Jones’ story started off weird and got only weirder.