As Chief Justice, Roberts should make the Elderly UnConstitutional

As I'm scheduled to work today but don't really have any specific things I need to do, I've spent the last couple hours reading The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes and watching some of the confirmation hearings for future Chief Justice Roberts. From what I can tell (most likely little) it appears that Roberts is engaged in the most vigorous ass kicking of the largest group of incompetent senators ever to gather in one confirmation hearing, fulfilling early predictions that Roberts would run intellectual rings around them. To their credit, most of the senators have realized this and have resorted to making their questions in the form of mini-speeches about their favorite issues to minimize Robert's face time and mask their own ineptitude.

Every time I sit down to watch a political event on TV, it always leaves me wishing that we put an upper limit on ages in politics the same way we do a lower limit. Living in Florida gives me a new found appreciation for the horrors of aging. A quick story about one of our members who is a great deal younger than Senator Byrd, for example: Clarence is playing golf in a group of other old guys and gets out of his cart, takes a few practice swings and addresses a mushroom. The other guys yell, "Clarence, that isn't your ball!" and he responds, "It is so my ball!" He then attempts to hit it (I'm sure very feebly) and it just mushes on the face of his club. Granted Clarence might be a good deal more senile than Senator Byrd, but they are both still way too old to be able to affect American policy in ways other than lobbying for cheaper coffee at McDonald's and draining money out of social security and medicare.

Incontinence is always funny.