As the mind numbing boredom of August recedes into the haze reserved for particularly traumatic memories, even the Supreme Court is getting back into the action. A fresh Court and a wide-open primary - whatever will we do with this kind of plenty? As if that wasn't enough, here's the Court season's first laugh out loud Dahlia Lithwick crush paragraph:

And then this year, all hell breaks loose. The last few weeks have produced one Oprah-grade revelation after another. Which makes gazing up at the justices today something like waking up the morning after Woodstock: There's a tangle of naked judicial limbs up there on the bench, and the uneasy collective sense that it's best to avoid eye contact... Justice Antonin Scalia - who somehow over the summer became the court's most reticent justice - wants to know how it can possibly be fair to the political parties that "candidates can associate themselves with the parties, but parties can't dissociate from the candidate." He asks whether there is any way to test the truth of the candidate's alleged preference for the Republican Party.

If only a crippling loss of strategic depth and national identity wasn't about to be imposed on Israel - followed by the very real potential for an apocalyptic war in the Middle East - it really would be all candy and unicorns this week.

References:
* In the Bedroom [Slate]

Previously:
* Mere Rhetoric: December 2006 Archives
* More Fun With The 9th Circuit
* Israelis For Kerry, Jews For Kerry, and Israeli Jews for Kerry