In nominating Samuel Alito to fill Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, George W. Bush may have failed to realize how appropriate it was that he announced his choice on Halloween.
It scares the hell out of me.
Anyone who supports a woman's right to an abortion (I'm not going to use mealy-mouthed language like "a woman's right to choose") or supports proposed federal restrictions on guns ought to be scared to death too. Alito's record on these issues is extremely troubling, and his record on other issues isn't very reassuring either.
Oh yeah, get this; Alito lives in my hometown of West Caldwell, New Jersey, a staunchly whitebread town outside Newark. To give you an idea of what my hometown is like, it's mainly populated by Republicans, boring housewives, and dull teenagers. It's also where Todd Solondz's great anti-suburban movie Welcome To the Dollhouse was filmed, and it's also the hometown of Tommy Page, a one-hit-wonder New Kids On the Block wannabe discovered by the same music mogul who discovered Madonna. So now I have one more reason to be embarrassed by my hometown.
On the other hand, we do have New Jersey's oldest cucumber magnolia tree.
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