Also, where would a person buy a little apron? I didn't see any at the costume place. I'm thinking I could put accessories over my current clothes to do 50s housewife, tying Halloween into my homework.

I shopped at the store of msbelle, where they also carry white gloves, and service with a smile, resulting in this: [link]

I heard somewhere that Bush nominated Miers over the objections of his advisors. Dunno what advisors those were... but probably not Rove and Cheney.

What kills me is that Miers screens candidates for the Supreme Court. Did she not think that her resume was not like all the others who've been nominated to the court since we've had formal law schools?

I think it is insulting to call O'Conner and Ginsberg tokens. To my ear it implies they were otherwise unqualified. I think it is fair to say that SCOTUS should have some diversity.

I am not commenting on Thomas, because I am pretty sure calling him names does not trip my insult-o-meter.

This is the article detailing how Miers was selected: [link]

It's very interesting, if you hadn't read it already.

With Alito there will be five Catholics on the Supreme Court.

45 years ago some questioned whether JFK would be a sockpuppet of the Vatican.

Things have changed.

I feel like I should care about things like SCOTUS nominees, but my own powerlessness is bothering me more than it normally does. I mean, yeah, things are falling apart, the center isn't holding, etc.--but there's not a damn thing I can do about it. So there's a big part of me that wants to just ignore it all, work on my novels, and hope the world doesn't fall apart to such a degree that everything I'm working on now is useless. I promise to come out of my tunnel and get involved when it's time to pick a Dem nominee for '08, but until then I feel like I don't even have the tiny power of one voter.

So there's a big part of me that wants to just ignore it all, work on my novels, and hope the world doesn't fall apart to such a degree that everything I'm working on now is useless.

Yeah, I get that. I'll probably poke my head out of my cave when the '06 elections gear up. (It would be nice to take back Congress.) But right now? I'll be putting most of my mental energy toward the job hunt, I think.

I'm not as worked up about '06 as I might be because there's not a snowball's chance in hell my congressional district could go Republican. I guess Cantwell's re-election to the Senate might be close, but right now I'm not expecting it to be.

But I think the Miers nomination was just Bush being really uncunning.

I have to agree with this. Crony subdivision. (Remember, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"?)