August 22, 2003

Justice delayed is bad, but a justice suspended is good

"Big 10" Roy has been temporarily suspended and removed from office pending an investigation by the Judicial Inquiry Commission. Yee-hah!

As I mentioned to either Andy or Valerie Bertinelli in an e-mail earlier, something that has always irked me about the 10 C's is this: Moore puts them there because they are the foundation on which our moral covenant with God, the giver of all laws, is built.

Has he never read the rest of the story? The Israelites had just seen God turn sticks into snakes (he really should have turned the rod into a polar bear- now THAT would have made an impression), rivers into blood, unleash plague after plague of lice, boils, darkness, yapping poodles, telemarketers, hail, etc., then kill the firstborn of the land because pharoah still wouldn't let his people go because God kept changing his mind (this was in the days when God was still self-medicating- this was only a few weeks, after all, after he sent Moses to Egypt with a holy mission then tried to kill him on his way there [though luckily that hurled foreskin saved him just in time]). They had seen him open up a sea (or body of water in any case) and drown an army all for their convenience. They had seen a pillar of fire he set as a beacon for them and they had seen Moses' obviously divinely altered face whenever he lifted his veil. These were people who knew the power of God and felt him daily.

And before Moses got back down the mountain they were already worshipping another God. And the 10 Commandments were all broken (literally) the day they were autographed. Yet 3000 years later they're supposed to keep people moral. M'kay.

(Personally I've always seen the Golden Calf as a metaphor for a series of wars in which monotheism ultimately triumphed over polytheism for the most part; it makes much more sense this way. It was irritating to learn that Freud, among many others, had beaten me to the theory by decades- nothing knew under Ra, as they say.)