News

A lot has been going on in the world and I’m going to try and play catch up.

Justice Souter

The replacement of Justice Souter should have been the partisan fight of the year, but considering how the Right has been picking a fight over everything from the stimulus bill to the dress code at the Whitehouse, it is unlikely that the fight over the next justice will be as grand as many think. Republicans may have had more of an ability to affect the selection of the judicial nominee if they hadn’t already proven themselves irrationally intransigent. It is unlikely that they will have much of an affect on who becomes the next justice.

Wanda Sykes

Lol. Her jokes were inappropriate; the funniest ones tend to be. But hey, if they didn’t want inappropriate jokes told, they shouldn’t have invited a comedian. They could have had politicians tell jokes, people pretend to laugh, and something unwatchable but they chose funny instead. Her joke about Limbaugh was priceless.

Charlie Crist for Senate

The Republican civil war is becoming heated. Charlie Crist is running for Senate and is probably the wrong kind of Republican for many of the hardcore right. This will likely be good for the Democrats in that much money will be spent on the Republican primary and it is likely to be very ugly. Whoever wins the Republican primary will be thoroughly bruised and many general election voters are likely to be turned off by this.

The Holocaust

The Pope, who as a child was required to be a Hitler Youth, has visited Israel recently and the subject of the Holocaust has been brought to the top of the news cycle. The specific targeting of the Jews by the Nazi’s for “extermination” was a horrible thing. We must never forget what happened there and it is good that the Pope spoke about it. The only problem I’ve had recently regarding the holocaust is this, although the Nazi’s had a particular, and irrational, hatred of the Jews, they were not the only people they killed in the camps. 11 million human beings were killed in the Holocaust, 6 million of which were Jewish. I sometimes think we forget about the other 5 million people were killed by the bigoted Nazi party, and I also think that it is possible to recognize the horrible pogrom against the Jews, while at the same time recognizing those others who were targeted by Hitler without diminishing either group.