Judge not, lest-- eh, just judge not.

If your television has been on during the past week, you already know about the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who placed the 5000+ pound monument to the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court in the middle of the night, then refused to remove it. The other eight justices unanimously agreed that he hadn't a legal leg on which to stand and ordered its removal.

My father's entire side of the family still lives in Alabama, most of them one county over from where this is all transpiring, so I'm somewhat familiar with the state and its politics. Rest assured, those eight justices ain't wild-eyed libruls. Chief Justice Moore, however, remained steadfast in his refusal to uphold the law, as his oath of office, sworn before God, required and thus earned himself a suspension pending an investigation.

"I've been ordered to do something I cannot do. I cannot violate my conscience," he pontificated. Well, guess what, Gomer? You can't be a judge either, then. Them's just the rules. Of course, he hardly needs the gavel now; expect to see him running for elective office very soon. Expect him to win.

I was all set to write something satirical about the judge and the throng of oppressed believers who crowded around their Dixie-flavored Qaaba, but I really don't think I can compete with Tom Burka's wickedly funny job of it, so go give your laughs to him. He's earned them.