Absolutely Terrible Week

I can't think of a week that had so many bad things happen, from the serious to the mundane, in a long, long time.  We lost a beloved colleague at the Sierra Club, the Massachusetts special election, and then the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech.


Not coincidentally, the two worst weeks I can think of involve the Ronald Reagan Memorial, officially known as the Supreme Court. First they let Katherine Harris and the brother of one of the candidates decide who won the 2000 presidential election, then the High Court says money is speech and corporations have the same rights as people.  Those two events are profoundly related; do you think Al Gore would have picked Roberts to replace Rehnquist? 


I wonder if the court ruling means we are going to redistribute the wealth, to ensure that everyone's money and speech are equal. The Declaration of Independence says we're all equal, so it seems if we are sincerely interested in keeping everyone, and their speech, equal we need to start redistributing the wealth right now!


Thanks Chief Justice, or should I say Chief Comrade, Roberts. And salutations to our revolutionary vanguard, justices Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Anthony Kennedy (who, as the swing vote, is for my money probably the biggest dumb ass in America right now).

SCOTUS

from the Boston Globe--Why Sonia Sotomayor is my choice for the Supreme Court: She issued the preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball on March 30, 1995, preventing the owners from unilaterally implementing a new collective bargaining agreement and using replacement players. It effectively ended the 1994 baseball strike.