Friday, July 17, 2009

Goodbye, Walter

Walter Cronkite, 1917-2009
"And that's the way it is."

An exceptional journalist, an honest, dignified, intelligent, decent man, who helped millions of Americans, me included, interpret our world. Gratitude abounds; thank you, Uncle Walter, for sharing it with us.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Confirmation testimony we'd like to hear

Random Republican senator: "Judge Sotomayor, will your ethnicity allow you to be an impartial Supreme Court justice?"
Sonia Sotomayor: "Senator, my ethnicity will not have any more bearing on my decisions than my fellow justices' ethnicity has on theirs."