UPDATED: Before he escaped from "the Zoo"

Glenn Beck gets the VH1 "Behind the Music" treatment...think he needs more cowbell here. Check out the excellent Salon.com series on the rise of Lonesome Rhodes.

Sorry for the lack of anything resembling actual blogging here -- real-life morphed straight into a Daily News editing shiftr with lots of, um, news.

UPDATE: Interesting read, as always, from Glenn Greenwald on the debate over whether Beck is a conservative or something else, and why it matters.