Off Topic: Louie Gohmert wins the prize...

... for the most tangential Republican digression in today's all-day House Judiciary hearing on the U.S. attorney firings, featuring the Plame-blonde Monica Goodling, who actually held her ground better than Gonzales or Sampson did (if they'd guessed that, would they have let her testify sooner?)

GOHMERT (R-TX): The Latin phrase meant "truth for Christ and the church," and that was the official motto of Harvard in 1692.

And the rules and precepts of Harvard in 1646 said, "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, and therefore to lay Christ at the bottom as the only foundation."

It is part of the foundation.

And I would also submit to my colleagues that the hate crime bill passed out of this committee and taken to the floor and passed recently leaves an opening. If someone here seems to indicate there's something wrong about being a Christian and someone is induced to commit violence against that Christian, then the person on this committee could possibly be charged under the hate crime bill as the principal for having committed the act of violence.