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John Roberts is qualified, I'm sure, but I don't think he's Chief Justice material the way Scalia or even Thomas is. He's young, and he's vanilla. He'd make an exemplary Associate Justice, but not the Chief Justice of the United States. No. Not yet.

Uncle Meat, Hot Rats, and Burnt Weeny Sandwich are musts, I feel.

Well I don't know about THAT. I mean I just spent a whole thread lobbying for Scalia.

Ah, Uncle Meat. It took me a second listen to really come around on it, but when I did, I really did. It's far and away the most musically rich release from the Jimmy Carl Black lineups. Weeny and Weasels are great too, but all the recurring themes, and King Kong, and all that stuff, it's just great stuff. You can definitely hear the Stravinsky, the Varese, the childhood doo-wop all shining through. Can't go wrong with a lineup that includes both Underwoods, either. The CD release has a second disc, which has about 40 minutes of random conversations that make Lumpy Gravy seem linear, and a song called "I've Got A Big Bunch Of Dick" in Italian, and it's from the 80s and is there for no good reason. Cut that shit out and just go with the original stuff and it's great. On Ruben: last fall, I kept seeing it at Borders for $8, and always passed on it in favor of stuff that wasn't rehashed from Freak Out, with Chad Wackerman overdubs for no good reason. I'm still kind of reluctant to get it, because half the band on CD is from 20 years later. I haven't listened to samples, but something isn't gonna be right if you have Ray Collins singing with Chad Wackerman's wanky electronic drum fills. Zappa was no fool in the studio (Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk is seamlessly edited from like 20 shows), but I'm suspicious anyway.

I guess the Casey Martin thing really did go that far, to our surprise, and Scalia's as well. TheAntoninDC

Come on. Writing dissents like that are the next best thing to doing them MikeSC-style.

How does Ruth Bader Ginsburg change a lightbulb? Watch France do it first. n'yah

I've been reading on Scalia, and he really seems like a man of integrity. I think if there's if there's one man that's above the bullshit, it's him. If he knew he was getting the CJ spot just for authoring the opinion in 2000, he'd probably turn it down. This is the guy that won't permit the media to record his speeches, and only wants C-SPAN to televise the Supreme Court's cases if they're done in their entirety and are seen by the American public. He fears that everything he does will be misquoted, misrepresented, and reduced to soundbites by Headline News--can't imagine why. Anyway, I think he's the right man for the job.

Republicans can't do this whole big gov't thing, I dunno why they're trying.

There's a lot of government stuff that should be shitcanned, but do you know how hard it is to do? As a libertarian, I've been thinking "we can trim the fat" for a while now, but it's so hard to trim that fat.

How is Thomas perceived to have betrayed the party? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he does the whole Antonin Scalia-esque Constitution-uber-alles thing, where if he has to betray his party's dogma in order to make a fair ruling, so be it. Most notable case of it was mentioned in Parliament Of Whores, when Scalia went to bat for flag-burners to the surprise of Solicitor General Ken Starr.

...well, at least it didn't say On Dames.

I read two articles on him in the last few days, one in Time, one on VH1.com. He came off as foul-mouted and not particularly well-spoken to me, though the premise of the Time blowjob piece was that his mom is a professor at Chicago State, he wears blazers and pink dress shirts, and oh and by the way he wrote songs about how the government infected blacks with AIDS and supplied them with crack to kill them off, now here's someone America can agree on! You wouldn't hate on a "guy who looks like he should be waiting for his acceptance letter from Exeter," would you? They barely mentioned that he threw a fit over losing to Maroon 5 and that country singer, which he admitted, he did to generate publicity for himself, a fact I took into account after I stopped laughing hysterically at "George Bush doesn't like black people." I was less than impressed with the guy. Sorry.

But if they have this innate respect for each other, and these shared experiences that make them like brothers, why wouldn't they...not kill each other?

If I can't apply a literal definition for "us," you can't force a literal definition for "wigger."

Your war of attrition plan intrigues me. Maybe we'll get some more "I hope his wife feeds him lots of bacon and eggs so he dies of heart disease as most black men are prone to do" out of it. Those comments are always uplifting to hear.

So does he, evidently:

Cool. Who doesn't like Kareem? I mean really

...but they should've anyway! So what if Blanco was giving Bush a hard time

Barron's off the hook for his "Hilary's breasts reached their peak at 16" comment that I said was like the creepiest thing I've read on the board in a long time

But she's not shiny anymore

I guess it's better to "experiment" with structurally questionable football fields.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Saints did move.

I'll admit it, I laughed.

Did it occur to any of the "da gubment be outs to kill us!" crowd that some of the National Guardsmen just might be black? Do you think they're going to refrain from opening fire on armed looters because both of their great-great-great-great-grandfathers were whipped?