Roy Moore, the
gleefully embattled Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is now faulting the federal court system for "threatening to drain huge amounts of public funds from the state of Alabama" in pursuing his case. Of course, he started the whole controversy in the first place (when he smuggled a monument to the Ten Commandments into the courthouse lobby in the dead of night, knowing full well that such gestures violate well-settled federal law concerning state entanglements with religion) and has dragged the case out with his own stubborn commitment to martyrdom (as he continues to flout federal and now state court orders to remove it).
There is talk now about building a partition around the Ten Commandments monument. That way Roy Moore can know it is there, but our Constitution will be unable to see it. No doubt this solution pays oblique homage to another of our Christian Constitution-wreckers, Attorney General John Ashcroft, who concerned himself so nonsequiturishly last year with
covering the exposed nipples of DOJ statuary. But as Mr. Ashcroft well knows by now, you can cover something up, but it won't go away. I like to think the Nipple of the Spirit of Justice talks to him as he strides out to his podium now and again for press briefings:
I'm still here, John. You can't see me, and you cannot escape my watch. I am everywhere, and I am all-powerful.
Sex Pistols/Dropkick Murphys concert review is coming, as I labor salmonlike through a steady current of ridiculous news stories toward a spawning ground of irrelevant subjects. In the meantime, content yourself with this article about a
Baghdad benefit concert. Whatever.
