The Battle of the Giant Monument

Moore's Law - The immorality of the Ten Commandments. By Christopher Hitchens

Read the article about the Ten Commandments above (from Slate) if you'd like a VERY different perspective on the whole flap about the monument in Alabama. The basic gist of the article is that the commandments imply not only an immoral people to receive them but also a "mad despot" of a maker. This and Bill Maher's comment last week on Real Time that religion is a "neurological disorder" dovetail nicely. A brief quote:

This leaves us with the insoluble mystery of why he would have molded ("in his own image," yet) a covetous, murderous, disrespectful, lying, and adulterous species. Create them sick, and then command them to be well? What a mad despot this is, and how fortunate we are that he exists only in the minds of his worshippers.

In Other News...

Brad and I saw The Battle of Shaker Heights tonight. It's a good movie for the first 45 minutes, and Shia is very likeable as Kelly. But the low budget, quick shoot, and direction by committee take their toll in the second half, and by the end there are a lot of disjointed things happening. Erica wrote a good story--you can feel it as you watch. I don't think this film does it justice.

We did have a splendid dinner afterwards at Lalo's on Clybourn Avenue in Lincoln Park. Their margaritas are "famous" for a reason.