So this post will be a little more political than most. Elena Kagan was not my first choice from President Obama’s shortlist of SCOTUS nominees. Diane Wood would have been the best. Elena is probably the most centrist if not slightly right leaning choices Obama could have made. Of course the Republicans and the rightwing pundits will portray her as some crazy socialist lesbian without judicial experience. They are calling her Obama’s Harriet Miers. No Harriet Miers was the Sarah Palin of judicial nominees. Totally unqualified. This is almost as laughable as calling the BP Gulf Spill Disaster, Obama’s Katrina (Note- the right can call it Obama’s Katrina when he lets 1800 people die through negligence). The last Justice to sit on the SCOTUS who’d never had a judgeship before was Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Chief Justice Roberts sat on the bench for only 2 years before becoming CJ.
It wouldn’t have matter who President Obama nominated. The Republicans were going to object and try to sabotage the nomination. If Kagan is gay. So what? I would actually welcome an openly gay Justice. No one openly questioned Chief Justice Roberts’ heterosexuality.
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I wonder if this dude’s day job is as a ninja? I’m wishing that LiveJournal had a like button. I’m also wishing that Facebook had a Dislike button. I consider myself above average intelligence, but I know if I were really smart, I’d be stinking rich. And I’m not. Sometimes I make mistakes, dumb mistakes or even say dumb things. It annoys me when people think they are smarter than me or they are better at debating. Sometimes I’ll play stupid to annoy them in return. Anyway I got into an argument over on Twitter and can’t vent about it on Facebook because the same people I argued with are on both. So I’m coming here. I’m going to talk in vague generalities and not the specifics of the debate. I think what bothered me was really the age difference. I did make one mistake in assuming that most people shared my opinion of this one company who make awesome products but hate the way they operate. So I end up defending another company that I really didn’t want to defend and didn’t know the full details. Anyway this much younger person was trying to make a false equivalence and trap me with my own logic. I wasn’t taking the bait. I know I probably did something similar when I was there age. I can take comfort in knowing that they’ll probably be on the other end of a debate like this when they get older. I did get more details and decided that the what the other company did was questionable and the courts would determine if what they did was illegal. If you haven’t read Terry Bisson’s short story, They’re Made Out Of Meat, now you don’t have to. It’s been made into this really cute, very professionally done short movie. © 2025 Christopher Merle Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑ | ||||