Living under this Bush regime of opposites - often being told what is white is black and what is black is white - it wouldn't surprise me much if Miers ended up on the bench. No not a park bench...but THE bench.

I think in spite of all the reasons we are hearing for her not to be nominated or confirmed, there is more to it than what we see. Maybe this is my conspiracy theory/true crime fanaticism coming through...I just think a favor may still be called in to someone somewhere.

Or maybe I have really just lost confidence in the checks and balances of our country's government. I just don't believe anymore; some of my ideals have been shattered in the last several years.

I think I may need to watch "All the President's Men" or "JFK" again...
Minerva Oblongata | Homepage | 10.07.05 - 1:53 pm | #

Not to be overly snide Minerva, but all ideals placed in human institutions -- particularly the inherently criminal enterprise of the State -- are by definition faulty and misplaced.

In fact the human desire for perfection is probably the greatest mental hubris of them all. The chief benefit of this is the desire to create something better than what exists actually exists. But history has shown that the excessive desire to refashion society (much less the world) has often-perilous consequences, from misery to penury to actual bloodshed.

It is not the creative human impulse, which lends itself toward misery, but the inherent difficulty in channeling that impulse properly given the context of outward reality.
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 10.07.05 - 3:03 pm | #

Thanks, Nikos. My ideals aren't about human institutions per se, but rather about humans themselves.

After work, I think I'll go and slit my wrists while listening to The Smiths and a little Bauhaus.
Minerva Oblongata | Homepage | 10.07.05 - 3:50 pm | #

Now, THAT's better...
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 10.07.05 - 6:05 pm | #