The Simpsons: The Ten Commandments

Okay, it is only a few days until Easter, and around that time, you might want to enjoy a few Biblical movies. Even though I'm a Godless heathen, I do enjoy some of them, although not and I repeat never any that features Charlton Heston. Especially not that one. You know the one I'm referring to. Bombastic, arrogant, cheesy, pious nonsense which tries to hide its lack of intelligence with high production value. And this is why I always loved the parody The Simpsons made of it in Homer VS Lisa and the 8th Commandment. Pure comedy gold from back when they were funny. And far more entertaining than the source material, Biblical or cinematic.

Hitchens' Decalogue

Fellow blogger Prof Solitaire reminded me that Christopher Hitchens would have been 65 yesterday. As Easter is coming, I thought I would upload a video from this incredible mind, controversist extraordinaire and overall merciless, admirable intellectual, about the Decalogue, aka the Ten Commandments. The Commandments are maybe the most overrated, absurd, often amoral "moral" injunctions ever written and Hitchens deconstructs them beautifully, then makes his own, which are far better. Anyway, as the movie of the same name is probably playing everywhere around Easter and that I disliked that movie even when I was a good Catholic boy, I thought I would upload Hitchens' Decalogue. So enjoy. Hitchens is always enjoyable, especially now.