The floor keeps vibrating. Not enough to be enjoyable, but enough to be disconcerting.

Universal's plan re: Serenity was always a limited theatrical release followed by making the real money on DVD sales. It's not "bad news" for a film to be performing exactly as its producers/distributor expected it to.

So it's possible Cheney - and Bush himself - may be charged with criminal conspiracy.

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In other news from my job, they did order big logo envelopes after all. The stickers must have been a stop-gap measure. Phew!!

It's not strange that smoke detector batteries are running out of juice just now -- we just passed the autumnal equinox, and the recommended time to change them is on the seasonal change. So whoever had the batteries installed last time must have changed them all together at the same time.

"George Bush Hates Conservative People."

Called, How you know when attempting to please all of the people has resulted in pleasing none of them.

The only thing that scares me about this Harriet Miers person thus far is the fact that her last name is spelled so weirdly. I keep imagining Justice Roberts putting corrigenda marks on every memo she writes, and her having to stet her name every time.

Actually, that would be funny. But only for nerds.

And yeah, how tone-deaf do you have to be to employ political patronage NOW?

Tone deaf? Or just don't care?

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

Actually, this is how they're operating. For someone like Edith Brown, we would already have a massive amount of data on decisions, court demeanor, etc. Someone like Miers, you have nothing, and since her main experience has been at the Bush White House, aka "I'm sorry, but we can't tell you what's for dinner, it's classified."

Unfortunately, it also hurts them with conservatives, because they want a name. Never mind that the last "name" they threw up there, Robert Bork, went nowhere (and contrary to what they'll tell you, it was his beliefs on Brown v. Board of Education that ultimately screwed him).

Miers is about to become the Michael Brown of the Supreme Court.

We're probably only a few months away from the White House selling indulgences. They've already knocked "schism" and "crusade" off the "be like the bad ol' Catholic Church" to-do list.

I'm darkly amused by the comments saying, "Bush is history." Well, see, it's his second term, so there's only so much that can happen to him, because -- oh that's right -- you voted for his reelection! Oops, sorry. I imagine the party's pissed off because he might turn moderates away from voting Republican -- but is that really likely? They wouldn't vote for him again, but will there really be repercussions for other Reps? I suppose they'd better distance themselves.

Actually, this is how they're operating. For someone like Edith Brown, we would already have a massive amount of data on decisions, court demeanor, etc. Someone like Miers, you have nothing, and since her main experience has been at the Bush White House, aka "I'm sorry, but we can't tell you what's for dinner, it's classified."

But disagreement with her on the issues isn't the only reason they can oppose her. It doesn't make her invulnerable. Her very lack of judicial or other demonstrable experience/expertise is reason enough, frankly, and I hope there are people of both sides of the aisle who'll run with it.