Dichroic Reflections

happy? somewhat

Three things that are making me happy today:

• My skirt is all rainbowy and fluttery


• I have a little (a very little) more information about my job and the reorg.


• I leave for Edmonton tomorrow night (Rudder and She-Hulk leave tonight, so they can get a practice row in tomorrow)


• I just found out that the scene of The Little Colonel in Arizona is right next to where I row. The lake has only been there for about five years, and the dam that keeps the Salt River mostly dry for a few decades; at the time the Little Colonel visited it would have been a seasonal river.

I'm not quite as happy about the new Supreme Court nominee. So far, what I've heard is that he's young enough to influence the Court for a long time, very brilliant, very nice personally, and very conservative. He apparently has a lot of Democratic friends in D.C., which means either that they are the sort of people to follow power in any guise or that he's got the intergrity to respect people of differing viewpoints. I'm hoping for the latter, obviously.

The news reported that several liberal groups are planning to oppose Roberts for being too cnoservative. That's not right. There's no reason a Supreme Court Justice shouldn't be conservative, not in the law or the Constitution. There are plenty of reasons for preferring that he not be too far to the right, but that's a battle we lost last November. The more important question, I think, is does he have the integrity and the stomach to follow the law as written or judge it against the Constitution either as written or as the Founders intended in his best impartial judgement? Even if it means a particular case goes against his own bias? If so, then given that and the other things that have been said about him, he's a worthy nominee and belongs on the bench, whether or not I agree with his views. If not, then I hope they fight and filibuster if necessary to keep him off the Court.