walmart is a "public use"?

to those of you who find it interesting, slate has a big dialogue about the recent emminent domain case (which irks me in that hackneyed "slippery slope" sort of way). the discussion branches into the ten commandment cases (which came out much more reasonably than i feared).

i got turned onto that dialogue through a brief discussion of these matters on Big Gray. my modest contribution to that discussion kind of "got served", but i stick to my guns. BG, by the way, turned 30 yesterday. congratulations [condolences?] are in order. at the very least, he got to drink a huge free blue hawaiian at the manhattan.