BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Roberts Court - Supreme Court Clerks, Like Justices, Lean Left or Right - NYTimes.com

 "“Law is a craft and profession that in many ways transcends philosophy.”"

WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in American law: a Supreme Court clerkship. Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a résumé that almost always includes outstanding grades at a top law school, service on a law review and a prestigious clerkship with a federal appeals court judge. The Roberts Court - Supreme Court Clerks, Like Justices, Lean Left or Right - NYTimes.com:
The stark political divide among the clerks is recent.

 “The Supreme Court clerkship appeared to be a nonpartisan institution from the 1940s into the 1980s,” according to detailed data in the Vanderbilt study.


At the Supreme Court, Judge Calabresi continued, the ideological leanings of clerks may sometimes have an impact.

“To the extent that justices are really strong, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “To the extent that justices are uncertain or weak, it can make a difference.”

Like to take note of the fact the quote about justices being 'really strong' or 'uncertain or weak' does not translate into being 'right' or 'wrong'. 

However, it's much harder to appear strong when one is a liberal who  realizes life is more complicated than most people care to hear where they were wrong.

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