September 20, 2005

• TUESDAY POLITICS

  Well, the ayes/eyes have it. Stare deeply into these eyes, because we’re going to be seeing them represent the Wisest Guy on the Wisest Court in the Land for a Long Time. There’s no doubt of the outcome, but it’s been quite informative watching the process of confirmation, which I guess you have to have cable to do. What I saw just from a sizing-up-someone’s-personality-by-how-they-talk-and-act perspective is a very smooth customer, obviously super bright and able to rattle off legal explanations and opinions like nobody’s business. In fact, I learned a new legal term – stare decisis – from the hearings. It means respecting long-term supreme court decisions (like Roe vs. Wade) and came up a lot because the congressmen and senators have been trying to pin this guy down to his druthers in that emotional matter. He wasn’t going for it. He managed to take the confirmation process’s version of the 5th amendment every time he was asked how he would vote on a certain subject. And I could actually see the sense of that, as suspicious as I am of a conservative. You wouldn’t want a judge to be saying he’d vote a certain way (or not) just to get the position. It’s going to be fascinating. Can you impeach a Supreme Court Justice, I wonder, if he does get Way Too Weird? I’ve never heard of it happening. And I guess if we can’t seem to impeach Bush (and how much weirder can HE get), then we can’t impeach anybody any more. Is it going to take another sexy White House intern to stop this madness? Well, back to staring deeply into those eyes – I think I’m getting hypnotized………..
  

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  Deep Thought: “The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor-through some kind of space warp or something. “Go, Bob, go!” yelled one of the generals. “Give me that!” said the big-guy general as he took the microphone away. “Listen, Bob,” he said. “You’ve got to steer that meteor away from Earth.” “Yes, but how?” thought Bob. Then he got an idea. Right next to him there was a steering wheel sticking out of the meteor.”
  Today I am grateful for: Questions and answers
  Guess the Movie: “Listen man, I smoke, I snort… I’ve been begging on the street since I was just a baby. I’ve cleaned windshields at stop lights. I’ve polished shoes, I’ve robbed, I’ve killed… I ain’t no kid, no way. I’m a real man.” Answer: City of God, 2002.
  9/18-9/20: Cindy Sheehan in NYC (updated schedule) for Build Up to Sept. 24 Anti-War March in DC
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