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Ubu Roy.

In accordance with a couple of the various versions of the Second Commandment, a graven image, before which a small but ferocious number of Confederate-flag–waving Southerners (apparently quite telegenic) had bowed down themselves to, and served (with various proclamations and lamentations, that they might be seen of men; they have their reward), has been removed.

(Do I mock? Very well, then, I mock. A group of hotheads and disgruntled malcontents so eager to trample the Fourteenth Amendment that they willingly cast themselves as cartoon extras in the stage-managed aggrandizement of a third-rate political hack’s bid to become governor of a bargain-basement state too punch-drunk to drag its tax code into the 20th century—that’s eminently mock-worthy. That the media would poke and stoke the “story” for the sake of a few ratings points in the dog days of August is deplorable. That anyone takes Judge Roy Moore seriously—or thinks anyone else might, outside the Kleig-lit pucker of rabble and rouser—is self-evidently ludicrous. —If not, well: you’re free to consult the Google oracle for a sense of the actual role the Ten Commandments play in this great multicultural, secular nation of ours.

(Seriously. The whole God damned thing is a barrel-bottom Hollywood rip of Alfred Jarry.)

  1. Kevin Moore    Aug 28, 07:27 am    #
    You dis your home state, homeboy? Wow.

    You're right, of course. It's all poppycock. Tempest in a teapot.

    I think. It's a bit unsettling for the TC monument to have made it as far as the court house in the first place. Can't have the government, especially its justice branch, publicly siding with the precepts of any ole time religion. No Leviticus, no Sharia, not even some of those "Thou Shalt Nots" most of us take as a suggestion rather than as actual law. Or are we to resume stoning those who take His Name in vain? Or sing "Train in Vain"? (Mainly in Spain?) I ask rhetorically, of course.

    Take some small comfort from that Whore of Secular Humanist Babylon, The NY Times: It is unfortunate that this confrontation, which attracted a national audience, has been seen as a showdown between Alabama and the federal government. In fact, many of the heroes are Alabamians, and many who were the most derelict in defending the Constitution and federal power work for the federal government.

  2. Prentiss Riddle    Sep 2, 12:44 pm    #
    It's outta there? Whew. That's a relief. I was sure we were going to have a Waco-style standoff leading to a martyrdom of some sort and a few decades worth of fodder for the conspiracy theorists.

  3. --k.    Sep 2, 06:35 pm    #
    It's not so much "outta there" as "stashed in an anonymous back storage room," apparently, but that's close enough for government work. --And it's not so much I'm dissing my home state as I'm dissing the current state of my home state. Which has a lot to do with out-of-state timber companies, among other McKinleyesque goons. ("Bargain basement" was chosen quite deliberately, sirrah.)

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