“My dad took me to see the World Series, and we were sitting behind third base, not too far back,” Stevens, who was twelve years old at the time, told me. He recalled that the Cubs players had been hassling Ruth from the dugout earlier in the game. “Ruth did point to the center-field scoreboard,” Stevens said. “And he did hit the ball out of the park after he pointed with his bat. So it really happened.”
Amazing. I for one am just really happy he survived the Bush Administration...although I am also appalled upon reflection that so integral a part of our government relies on partisans on both sides using actuarial tables to guess the lifespans of each justice. 20 year term limits seem a reasonable compromise.
This whole article by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker is pretty amazing; the best part for me was this quote from Stevens' minority dissent in the Bush v. Gore decision:
Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
I remember the Florida episode rather vaguely to be honest. Being 16 years old and getting most of my election coverage from the Will Ferrell/Darrell Hammond impressions of the candidates on SNL, I was under the impression that, for the most part, politics didn't matter all that much--which serves as yet another example of how stupid I was at 16.
Oh well, at least I wasn't one of the 90,000 Floridians that voted for Ralph Nader. They can choke on their granola for all I care. Not die, just choke.
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