Kevin Spacey's middle name is Spacey??

Today was a good day. The Bills beat Miami in Miami. Bills are now 4-3 and are streaking upward. I truly believe that they are going to win the super bowl this year. They have the most explosive offense in the league and a fastly improving opportunistic defense.

Alias was good tonite, nothing spectacular, but pretty good. The Practice was interesting and raised some questions about freedom of religion, the state vs the parent. I have all kinds of thoughts and if I were Eve Tushnet, I'd do a "vast post" (gulp) but I hate doing vast posts (gulp, gulp).

The issue was that a Christian Science couple's child dies of an illness. They did not seek medical treatment because they believed that prayer could heal. The prosecutor seemed to be suggesting that they were guilty because they did not care for the kid as the state sees it fit. I understand the thrust of the argument to be more like, the state lays down the terms of parenting and parents who fall sort of that are criminal. But, I think I say nay to that. Parenting is part of "natural law" and the state should rather serve as a steward to parents and not regulate parenting. However, the state, for the common good and the good of an individual child, may insert itself and interrupt the parent child relationship if the parenting falls below a reasonable standard. However, the standard is not imposed by the state, on the other hand, the standard of reasonable parent care emerges from visible and reasonable consensus in society.