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I've been strangely gripped by the Roberts hearing in the Senate lately. Everytime I'm in my car, I listen to the live broadcasts on NPR or the analysis on Democracy Now. I keep wondering what to think of him. His pawprints are all over some *really* ugly presidential policy papers. I don't know what to make of his assertion that many of these were written when he was a staff lawyer for the Reagan Administration, and he was expected to write briefs that found ways to support their reprehensible policies. On one level, I understand the idea that people are separate from their jobs, that sometimes they have to do things their boss tells them to do, and not believe in those things. Yet, I keep thinking, how could you work for someone if they kept asking you to do things you really didn't agree with?

Anyway, what's really interesting to me is to hear them refer to these landmark Supreme Court cases, some more famous than others, and I've been looking them up online to find out what they were about. If you want to too, here's a link: http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

Got home too late to see the President's speech on Katrina, will have to watch it online. Don't expect him to say much that moves me though. But can anyone believe he actually took responsibility for something?

Jon Stewart last night perhaps, expressed our collective shock the best: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/jon_stewart/index.jhtml