"Is art served by presenting ancient divisiveness in blood-streaming media to the widest audiences in the history of drama?" -- William Safire's criticism of "The Passion of the Christ" is wise and reasoned -- for once, I agree with him wholeheartedly. And in a similarly unusual moment, Christopher Hitchens is right on Gibson himself, "a coward, a bully, a bigmouth, a queer-basher." Ouch.