"Regardless of how one feels about Sotomayor, Thomas, or their respective views and decisions on the Supreme Court, I thought this testimonial spoke very highly of both of them.
"For one, it illustrated the power and character of lifting up others. Thomas does it by taking a genuine interest in his co-workers’ lives. Sotomayor did it, in this case, by sharing with others a side of Thomas...."
That any of this would be a subject of such a commentary shows that we're defining malignant ignorance downward - to paraphrase the late Sen. Pat Moynihan - and strength of character upward . The response to all that verbiage should be, wait for it, "SO?" - to paraphrase that ever voluble former VP Dick Cheney.
"Regardless of how one feels about Sotomayor, Thomas, or their respective views and decisions on the Supreme Court, I thought this testimonial spoke very highly of both of them.
"For one, it illustrated the power and character of lifting up others. Thomas does it by taking a genuine interest in his co-workers’ lives. Sotomayor did it, in this case, by sharing with others a side of Thomas...."
That any of this would be a subject of such a commentary shows that we're defining malignant ignorance downward - to paraphrase the late Sen. Pat Moynihan - and strength of character upward . The response to all that verbiage should be, wait for it, "SO?" - to paraphrase that ever voluble former VP Dick Cheney.