View From the Bushes

Much to my surprise, I heard that Harriet Miers had withdrawn her nomination this morning on the drive in to work. I figured that at a minimum they would see how the hearings went before they took that step. The decision to withdraw appears to have originated with the nominee rather than the president, but you can never tell with these sorts of things. I was unimpressed from the very beginning, but a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Robert Bork really solidified my objections. Of course you may well wonder at this point whom I would like to see as the next nominee: my dream nominee is Janice Rogers Brown, and really when you think about it, what sort of horribly racist misogynist would you have to be to oppose the nomination of a black woman to the high court?

I was going to spend some time talking about Freakonomics, but I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow when I've finished the book. Other than that, things are going reasonably well at least for the moment. We'll see how long that lasts.

Experiencing a temporary lull in Evil
Ross