NUH-UH! . . .

United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist died tonight.

Not that it matters, but I hardly agreed with him.
And again not that it matters, but I still really respected him as a fellow lawyer.

Now that's what I call the end of an era.

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SIDE-NOTE . . .

This of course means that Shrub gets to pick not one, but two, Supreme Court Justices.
GRRRRRRR ARRRRRGGGGGH.

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MOMENTARY FRIVOLITY . . .

I am so so tired and exhausted from a loooong day o' fun, but having just discovered that U2 is performing on Saturday Night Live tonight ... well, I just have to stay up now.

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TIDBIT . . .

Flipping to nytimes.com, and browsing through Day Six of the photo gallery link, I saw the most hopeful and heart-mending sights I've seen in days. A 105-year-old white woman in a wheelchair, holding hands with a 5-year-old black child, walking with a slew of volunteers who were helping them to evacuate the New Orleans Convention Center. A helicopter crewman shielding an evacuee from the propeller-whipped winds with his entire body, in preparation of a flight out of town. A National Guardsman escorting a woman to an evacuee bus, carrying her baggage for her.

Finally.