Have Graven Image, Will Travel

Sigh.

Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and his Republican rival Haley Barbour said Mississippi would take the Ten Commandments monument that was removed Wednesday from a public area of the Alabama Supreme Court building. The separate statements were issued within minutes of each other, and it's unclear which was written first.

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"Tell Judge Moore, who is a hero to so many of us, that if they don't want the monument in Alabama, we want it in Mississippi," Barbour said. "I'll send a truck over today to pick it up, if they'll let me have it for the Governor's Mansion."

Musgrove said he would display the monument in the Mississippi Capitol for a week starting Sept. 7 and he hoped other states would take turns showing it. "It is my intent to move this monument to other states to show support for our common Judeo-Christian heritage," Musgrove wrote.

Great. Roy's Holy Boulder is going on tour. It's a rock star now.

Why does it always have to be the South? Year in and year out, the gold medalists in synchronized ridiculousness. Just when California had finally pulled ahead of us, we reach deep down into our collective regional self and find that last bit of energy, of courage, of determination, and WHOOSH! We're watching Larry Flynt and Arnold Schwarzenegger fade to specks in the rear view mirror.

It was a noble and valiant effort, California, but just as Minnesota found out, this is not a sport for amateurs and the season isn't over after just one game. Now step aside and we'll show you what championship-level surreal looks like.