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358. Instant evolution's gonna get you

By Joel Jacobsen

A few weeks ago, the comic strip Pearls Before Swine - written by a recovering lawyer, Stephen Pastis - featured Pig, Rat and Goat standing behind a table or wall or something, all looking the same way.  (In Peanuts,  the wall had stones and they rested their elbows on it, but then Schulz hadn't gone to law school.)Pig says something like, "My goal in life is to leave every place a little bit better than when I arrived."  Rat says: "You already do that."  Pig (thrilled): "Really?"  Rat: "Every time you leave the room, I feel better."  Pig, feeling euphoric, leaves, and Rat says to Goat, "The best insults sound like compliments."I thought of that when I read a recent opinion by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, the right wing agent provocateur on the Ninth Circuit, whose career has been devoted to making liberalism look ridiculous...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).