Brief useless thought:
At FDL, unfolds a discussion of Kagan's qualifications for the job of High Church Black Robed Adjudicator.
It does not matter if Elena Kagan qualifies for the nomination to SCOTUS, on the grounds of her publication history, her legal opinions, or lack thereof. "Qualified" and "unqualified" (in these terms) don't provide any insight, I believe, into understanding the Supreme Court, or who possesses some "right" or right quality, to sit on it.
The people who sit there do so because a very small number of folks rule over a very large, very governable, very obedient bunch of the rest of us.
From that perspective, one qualification matters more than any other: Will the rest of us obey?
If so, whomever Obama nominates holds as much "right" to the job as any other person interested in ruling over some portion of three hundred million taxpaying subjects of the national-myth corvée...
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
The wage-slavery isn't slavery in Pwog-land, because it gives one the "freedom" to exercise "purchasing power."
ReplyDeleteBwaaaah hah hah hah hah hah. Men, not fit for slavery, aspiring to kingship!
From the introduction to that wikipedia entry, I need to start more sentences with "It differs from chattel slavery in that..."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nightcap laugh, the two of you.
ReplyDeleteNow back to making myself even less understood, at SMBIVA...