well, lest anyone think i'm being consistently productive at work, i've just gotta say:

if you're interested in sifting the garbage, check out the comment thread at atrios's post on the roy moore spectacular. several points:

1. hey leftists! (this goes for you, too, nicholas kristoff.) not all christians are asshats.

2. hey conservatives! "acknowledgements of God" might, maybe, a little, occasionally, be considered not to violate the establishment clause. but "acknowledgements of God" and "huge state-funded monuments to specific majority ideologies" are not the same thing. just fyi.

3. hey conservatives (part II)! alan keyes is NOT a constitutional scholar.

thank you, my work here is done.