Holy Highway, Batman!

Who knew? Highway I-35 is specifically mentioned in the Bible, according to a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. I for one am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Thanks to writer Chao Xiong for a truly enlightening story about the human ability to make a text mean just about anything.

It's a bit unclear in the story how this holiness is supposed to work exactly. The main argument seems to rest on a combination of these facts: JFK was killed in Dallas, the 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, and there were some killings in Laredo. Sounds more like the hellish highway, if you had to pick sides.

The verse in question is from Isaiah 35:8 and it reads: "And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein."

I see. I guess that could shed some light on why Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald (to keep the unclean from the passing over the holy highway, of course), but it doesn't begin to explain how the Minnesota Department of Transportation was allowed to err in its maintenance of the 35W bridge.