While hundreds of thousands of convention-goers violated their own (well-founded) personal space boundaries for a Star Trek movie poster, and I marveled at Kal "Kumar" Penn stepping into our elevator and discovering a seemingly unknown breakfast buffet a block away, a right-wing media-fueled welfare recipient went on a shooting rampage at a church. Grant Morrison spoke of the superhero as a model for human evolution, like the bullet-proof man invented by a 17-year-old kid who'd lost his father to a thief's gun. Maybe the next true siddhi is the ability to care beyond oneself.