Watching day one of the confirmation hearings for Judge Sotomayor one could be forgiven for thinking (ever so briefly) of the tea party scene in Alice in Wonderland for indeed yea verily there was some contradictory obfuscatory projective nonsense flying around. My favorite bit of contradictory obfuscatory projective nonsense is the GOP’s notion that their men on the United States Supreme Court are impartial, untouched by the politics of social class, free of the desire to legislate from the bench. As one of my uncles used to say: “There’s only so much shit you can stuff back into the horse.” All I have to do is think of Antonin Scalia asserting that a man in a wheelchair can be carried up the stairs as opposed to say, making the courthouse accessible. Contempt for others is a political position and don’t you forget it Senator Pachyderm. I’m just saying…
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
I gave up watching confirmation hearings. They make me question how our country has survived as long as it has.
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