The Chief Justices are deciding right now whether the Mojave Cross should be allowed to stand on government ground, or if it constitutes a violation of the second amendment. (Go read about it here.)

The argument goes that the cross is a war memorial, and the challenge from the pro-cross camp is that it honors all war dead, not just Christian war dead. Damned absurd, of course, but I’d like to address something a little more basic:

How does a few tons of concrete in the middle of the desert honor anybody? Honor? What is honor? Read the rest of this entry »