Will They Keep Spinning When I'm Stopped at a Stop Light? or Big News Week

Well this was a big week. Senator Arlen Specter left the Republican Party and joined the Democratic Party, Chrysler declared bankruptcy, Justice David Souter announced his retirement, and we’re thinking about getting a mini-van. I already wrote about the senator. Chrysler declared chapter 11 bankruptcy, which means they’re going to reorganize their management and renegotiate their debt, and by reorganize and renegotiate I mean a judge is going to decide all of this. It needed to happen and I think it’s what all of the American car companies need to do. They have to be able to get their costs under control so they can compete. Then they need to hire some people that don’t suck, so they can start putting out products that don’t suck. Justice David Souter is retiring. He said he was going to if Obama was elected. Apparently, beltway politics make his skin crawl and he can’t take it anymore. I hope the president is thinking about who’s retiring and his story. Souter screwed the Republicans after he was on the Bench. H.W. nominated him thinking he’d be the conservative he’d been throughout his legal career, but as Supreme Court justices are wont to do, Souter voted however the hell he wanted to. That’s the whole point of the founding fathers making the job permanent. Obama needs to be careful who he picks, especially if he wants to have more than a crap shoot of an idea how the new justice will vote. He needs to be aware of more than race and gender or he’ll wind up with the presidential equivalent of herpes – unless we’re talking about Bill Clinton, in which case the presidential equivalent of herpes is gonorrhea. Nothing sticks to slick Willie. We went car shopping tonight. We’re probably going to end up buying a car from Tony Soprano. The guy we’re dealing with is clearly from North Jersey, and he hasn’t been down here long enough for Middleburg to affect his speech. He’s not as big as James Ganolfini, but he is a big guy with a receding hairline, and he looks a like Tony would look if Tony got his teeth fixed. He’s a real nice guy. MJ is deciding between two Honda Odysseys. I’m deciding if 20” rims would be ridiculous on a mini-van. Really, there’s only one way to find out. Boom.