What's Been and What's Ben

What just happened? Arlen Specter switched parties. That was a freebie. Obama did a bunch of stuff and a 60 seat majority with Al Franken seems likely. I think a bunch of us at Rose had the H1N1 Swine flu, but that is purely speculative. I think I am still decompressing from that election years. I think the economy will turn around by the 2010 elections and the democrats will have a mandate for universal single provider health-care and all will be good. That or some outside event will drive us into a deep recession and a bunch of far-right republicans institute the “everyone MUST carry a pistol, NO safety” policy.

Nobody will know for years how well this went. The pirate thing was cool. People try to talk about being post-racial while talking about how we need another woman or minority on the supreme court. What about an fair representation of left-handed people? Or what about Gernans? There are more Germans than African-Americans. What about children? A fair number of us are children. I don’t like affirmative action. Obama will soon decide his first supreme court justice. I think he will do something that is actually post-racial and pick a white male because most people qualified to be a supreme court justice are white. His decision will be very interesting for a former constitutional law professor who I think will be a supreme court justice after he retires from the oval office in eight years. He should be on the supreme court. I will note that this justice seemed to have waited until Bush left to leave himself. Everything I hear about him seems good even though he is pro-life even though he ruled that row v. wade was still precident. He just want to go to New Hampshire and hang out with cows or something cool like that.