I'm kind of confuzzled by the Bush nomination for the Supreme Court. Shouldn't one of the most important judges in the country have experience as a judge? Or is that just crazy talk?

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Shouldn't one of the most important judges in the country have experience as a judge? Or is that just crazy talk?

Historically, it's not that uncommon for a non-judge to be nominated.

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It's not unprecedented to nominate non-judges to SCOTUS. But when non-judges get nominated, they tend to be high-profile politicians like Earl Warren, who was Governor of California, or William Taft, who was an ex-president.

I'd say that it's pretty unusual to nominate someone with this low a profile.

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Yes, I attempted to order an iced vanilla latte at Krispy Kreme a few weeks ago. After several minutes of discussion with three separate employees, I was told that they had the wrong menu out and were, in fact, not allowed to put a latte over ice.

Yes, I'm serious.

Heh. When I was a little kid, my mother had a Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces moment, trying to order Iced Coffee at a Friendly's restaurant, in the Fall. Friendly's sold Iced Coffee in the summer, but they must have taken it off the menu come Autumn.

Do you have any coffee?

Do you have any ice?

Honestly, I don't see any evidence of a botched campaign. It may just be that the concept itself has limited appeal and isn't going to do better than that. But I have no problems with the marketing blitz I've seen from Universal - ads have been everywhere, and most of the ones I've seen have been good representations of the movie.

Yeah. I don't even notice commericials. I even miss ones I want to see, because I so completely tune them out. I watch DVDs way more than I watch live TV, and yet I've caught the Serenity spots without looking for them. Plus they had a "Can't Stop the Signal" ad on TiVo. I'm not going to fault their campaign.

I still spent a few nights in the papasan, but the difficulty there was in not being able to extricate myself.

Oh, dear. I hated that Turtle-On-Its-Shell part of pregnancy.

Can you buy burqas in pretty colors?

Of course. We have midnight black, twilight black, and classic black. What's your pleasure?

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Burqas do come in pretty colours.

I've been happily surprised to find out just about everyone I mentioned Serenity to had heard of it from ads. Not sure if they're going to watch it, but the awareness was there.

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Nice that the first result there is Lil Kim: [link]

What's the thing called that's basically as covered as a burqa, but with an eye hole? There's (at least one) woman in my neighborhood who wears that.

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Burqas do come in pretty colours.

That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.

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Grey's Anatomy: I was waiting for the kid to be the beater. Kinda disappointed it wasn't.

Botswana watering hole webcam.

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Where's Narrator?

Here.

Shouldn't one of the most important judges in the country have experience as a judge? Or is that just crazy talk?

A balance on the Court is usually viewed as helpful -- someone from the "real world" who has experience developing and implimenting laws. It's just that Miers basic qualification seems to be that she's from Bush's inner circle. And she's a woman.

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What's the thing called that's basically as covered as a burqa, but with an eye hole? There's (at least one) woman in my neighborhood who wears that.

Hijab, head covering. Chador, Iranian body/head covering, Full on, Afghani burqa.

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