That other blog (michaeldouglas.blogspot) offers quips on 56 minutes of Gibson's Aramaic Passion Play before degenerating into a simple personal discovery of my feelings of vacuous cluelessness about coming or already arrived and/or coming-again messiahs.

The issue of capital punishment returns recently since some of you may have wanted to ask Saddam a few questins, but maybe most people didn't care what he had to say and it was all self-serving, anyway....

Capital Punishment, like suicide, is not justice, but rather a presumptuous acceleration of the inevitable. The more extreme an action, the more equally it accomplishes its opposite intention.