...Immediate Reactions to the News of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Retirement

1. Shhhiiiiiit.
2. Wow, way to keep a poker-face, Sandra.
3. No matter what happens - how nasty, brutal, drawn-out, or successful for the cause of moderation the confirmation process is - we will have to live with the legacy of this Administration for decades.
4. "Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt." Thanks, Justice O'Connor for Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.
5. Sooo... Just how serious is Thyroid Cancer, anyway?

...Songs About Heartbreak

1. One For My Baby : (Arlen/Mercer) Frank Sinatra
2. He Said : Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
3. The Man That Got Away : (Arlen/Gershwin) Judy Garland
4. So. Central Rain : R.E.M.
5. Divorce Song : Liz Phair

...Things I Learned From President Bush's National Address On Iraq

1. Servicemen and women make colorful and attractive props.
2. If you just wait 30 years, the same old rationalizations for fighting an unwinnable war will sound fresh and new again.
3. The best way to defeat Saudi Arabians who are (probably) in Afghanistan is to go to Iraq.
4. "What WMDs? No. No WMDs - never said, never! 9/11! 9/11... 9/11... 9/11..."
5. I am not alone.

...Things To Do During Bush's National Address

1. Check-out The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and The Anarchist's Cookbook from your local library.
2. Watch the movie "Inherit The Wind."
3. Celebrate the Sanctity of Marriage by going to Las Vegas, picking up the first stranger of the opposite sex you can find, marrying him/her in a drive-thru chapel, consummating the union in a bathroom at Circus Circus, and anulling it as soon as possible. Repeat if time allows.
4. Hand-out birth-control pamphlets to teenagers.
5. Catch-up on your reading: here and here

...Songs I Can Never Listen To Just Once

...But must be repeat every time I listen to each; sometimes they are put on "Repeat" for an indefinite period of time

1. God Only Knows : The Beach Boys
2. Granny : Dave Matthews Band
3. Defying Gravity : The "Wicked" Soundtrack
4. Ramble On : Led Zeppelin
5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered : Stevie Wonder

...Actors In Roles Perfectly Cast As Family (And Such)

1. Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts as sisters in Something to Talk About
2. Patty Duke and Ned Beatty as Meg Ryan's parents in Prelude to a Kiss
3. MacKenzie Astin and Juliette Lewis as the children of Jeff Daniels and Debra Winger from Terms of Endearment - in it's sequel, The Evening Star
4. River Phoenix as the Young Indiana Jones/Harrison Ford in The Last Crusade
5. Beau and Jeff Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys (I'm not entirely joking)

...Things That Suck About The California Quarter

1. No specific references to the Bay Area; people tend to think of the Golden Gate Bridge when thinking of California
2. No specific references to Southern California; mentioning Hollywood, and the center of the world's film industry might have been appropriate
3. Nothing about the Gold Rush, or the string of Missions... Pretty significant pieces of History, I think
4. No one's first thought when thinking of CA is: "Ahh - the land of Yosemite!"
5. No one really cares about John Muir

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...Truly Beautiful, Non-Shmoopy Love Songs

1. Maybe I'm Amazed : Paul McCartney
2. I Would For You : Jane's Addiction
3. She's Got A Way : Billy Joel
4. Forever In My Life : Prince
5. At Last : Etta James

...Actors in Roles That Are Universally Accepted To Be Really Hot

(Regardless of age, race, creed, gender, species, socio-economic status, or sexual-orientation)

1. Paul Newman, as Ben Quick : THE LONG, HOT SUMMER
2. Clive Owen, as The Driver : THE HIRE series
3. Alan Rickman, as Hans Gruber : DIE HARD
4. Brad Pitt, as J.D. : THELMA AND LOUISE
5. Donald Sutherland, as Hawkeye Pierce : M*A*S*H

...Current Events That "Jumped The Shark"

1. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan (when asked about a statement made by Richard Meyers, involving a military issue) says that Myers - a five-star General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - is wrong. May 16th
2. Terry Schaivo's parents "question the results" of her autopsy; though her brain had shrunk to half the size of a normal woman's brain, and showed she was blind and, in fact, in a persistent vegetative state.
3. Human Events Online publishes a list of "The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries," which, for instance, rates the Kinsey Report as just slightly less "Evil" than The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
4. Vice President Cheney says in an interview on FOX: "I've never been able to understand his appeal. Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell." about DNC Chairman and 5-time Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean.
5. Michael Jackson's website equates his aquittal of all molestation charges with the birth of Martin Luther King Jr, the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall, and the freeing of Nelson Mandela.

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