SCOTUS, scrotus

I'll not be the first or last to make that pun.

It turns out that one need not be smart to recognize stupid. Nathan Rabin's "My Year of Flops" feature over on the Onion's AV Club Blog reviewed the ultra-flop "The Real Cancun" this week, and pointed out how refreshing it is when the otherwise presumably addled masses turn their backs on utter dreck. Check out MYOF; it's one of the few pleasures available to me in these dark days of dissertation pissed-offedness (D3PO).

The people have another surprising secret: they hate the conservative Supreme Court. Well, 57% still view SCOTUS favorably (whatever that means), but the Court has lost about 20% of its fans concomitant with losing its goddamn mind (see all recent rulings). This is good--it proves that ordinary people care about the law; moreover, they care about the perversion of the law by hacks like Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas. Apathy aside--about two national elections too late--we can hope that future Courts will be more reflective of public mood. Since the law is created as a tool to serve man, and not the other way around, the change would be proper.

By the way, I love this post on the SCOTUS blog: Upcoming Event in Malibu. A "dialogue" between Scalito, Ken Starr (dean of the mighty Pepperdine Law School...barf), and a partner in a major DC firm was simulcast on C-SPAN yesterday evening. See if you can catch the rerun. It answers the age-old question, "can one be a pussy and a dick at the same time?"