Quick, name as many Supreme court justices as you can.
You didn’t do very well, did you? I sure didn’t. O’Conner retired, Rehnquist passed away. I think the only judges whose names I honestly remember are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (perhaps due to the Scrubs reference) and Antonin Scalia. I could probably have pulled Samuel Alito and John Roberts out of the dusty portions of my brain due to their recentness. Last i checked there’s 9 justices and I only got 4.
Anyway, I was reading wikipedia and that naturally led to a massive loss of time. One of the things that i thought was particularly interesting is that with the appointments of Roberts and Alito (both Catholic) there are now 5 Catholics sitting the bench of our nation’s highest court. For reference, about 1 in 4 Americans are Catholic. 2 of the 9 are Jewish, 2% of America is. The remaining 2 are Protestant (1 Episcopal, 1 claims no denomination) compared to 52% of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
It’s hot in Seattle. I’m going to go as far as to say it’s hotter here than where you are. You will of course object because most of you live in either Austin (high today of99) or Sacramento (high today of 111 (good grief)) and both of those places posted higher highs than Redmond’s measly 93 degrees. But the issue at stake is not whether it’s hotter in your city or mine, the issue is how hot is it where you are right now. Since most of you are inside as evidenced by the fact that you’re reading my blog, and most of you are in the previously mentioned cities (or other cities in Texas) that probably means you’re sitting in a room that’s between 70 and 78 degrees because you have air conditioning. consider yourself lucky, because my room is currently 88 degrees with the windows open and the fan on in the middle of the night. I’m considering going and sleeping at Microsoft. This is why I am making the blanket statement that it is hotter here than where you are (unless you’re reading this in Seattle, in which case you already feel my pain).
I would like to issue the following people an exemption from the above paragraph: Ting, who was in the Dominican Republic sans A/C and Sarah whose A/C in Austin broke down, though she got to flee to Al and Dylan’s. I’m also going to give honerable exemptions to Al and Dylan for being honarable and providing Sarah with cool shelter.
That is all.