...and Thats the Name of THAT Tune!

From CNN:

Actor Robert Blake, who was acquitted of his wife's murder in March, was found liable Friday in the wrongful death civil trial brought by the estate of his slain wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.

He's acquited of the murder, but liable for the death. Kind of like those Nolo pleas, where you say you didn't do it and you'll never do it again. Boy, do I love high-profile American justice !

Reprehensibility

I gather that Dick Cheney and I have different opinions regarding what qualifies as 'reprehensible' conduct. He feels that it's reprehensible to question the rationale for a war while it's going on, whereas I feel it's reprehensible to wait until it's over to do so.

A war has got to have objectives that execution of it can meet, and so far I 've heard of just one: the elimination of Saddam Hussein as a power figure. Okay, done, and good deal. Now what? The rationale for being in Iraq seems to be 'to fight terrorism' and 'to make Iraq a democratic society'. Neither seems to be happening, but more important, neither seems to be something that can be achievable by fighting a war there.

Its possible that brighter people than me can see where in fact what we are doing does work to acheive those objectives, but as for me, its a non-starter. I think that the only thing we're doing is killing our people for no good reason.

Weaponry

From CNN:

LITITZ, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Police seized 54 guns from the home of an 18-year-old man charged with killing his girlfriend's parents and fleeing the state with her, according to court documents filed Thursday. Warwick Township police removed the collection of rifles, shotguns, handguns and ammunition Sunday from the home where suspect David Ludwig lived with his parents. .

I look forward to the NRA's facile explanation as to why it is normal for one person to have that much killing hardware. I'm sure it will be reasoned...and reasonable....and oblivious. Again.

Cheney Joins GOP Criticism of Democrats

I'm shocked -- shocked, I say -- that the President and Vice President of the United States would engage in partisan sniping.

Yeah, right.

Recipe

Hot Cranberry Salad

3 cups chopped apples (McIntosh)
2 cups whole raw cranberries
1 1/2 tsp. Lemon Juice
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 1/3 cup quick cooking oatmeal
1 cup chopped pecans
1/3 c brown sugar
1 stick melted butter

Spray 2 qt. Casserole with Pam. Toss together apples and cranberries.Sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice. Place in casserole dish.In medium bowl blend to moisten - oatmeal, nuts, brown sugar and melted butter. Pour mixture over fruit. Bake at 325 for 1 1/4 hour.

Amazingly good.

Domiciling

It was a nice house, but it wasn't a very nice house.

Yesterday afternoon, on a whim, we went to an open house at a local development. The houses are small, and attached, two to a unit. We knew that the builder was a high-end builder, so we expected that we would see a very nice house that was on the small side. Not quite.

The first floor was nicely laid out, the second, a bit barren (it had one bedroom, a large bath, and a very large open area whose purpose was not clear). The kitchen was small but pleasant (very large cooktop on an island; SubZero refrigerator, high-end GE appliances) and the architectural details were good (crown molding, archways, hardwood floors pretty much throughout). A small butler's pantry connected the dining room with the kitchen, no less than three bathrooms dotted the house. A full-house sound system played music throughout, including the outdoor sunroom. Overall, the quality was very good, yet, in an odd way, not any better than I'd seen in other new houses. Newer, yes. Better, no. Even when it was pointed out that the house had features that ours does not have, and which I'd like -- solid-core doors, for example, to cut down noise transmission, with 'ball bearing hinges', or a microwave that didn't block access to the range -- it didn't seem all that much better than ours.

The builder's plans showed that the model we were in was larger than our house, with about 2100 square feet on the first floor, and about 900 on the second floor. I wondered where all that space was, as the space felt snug to me. And the cost of the house was, to my mind, astronomical. Even given that a new mass-market house can easily cost about 60 percent of that house's cost, it seemed a staggering amount.

It gave me things to think about...and made our current house look much more attractive.

Some This, A Little of That

We had gotten pretty dissatisfied with the bacon we normally buy at Giant – about two-thirds of the time, the strips were flimsy, tearing as you pulled them from the slab, and frequently so fatty that they would shrink to about half their size. We tried buying the thicker slabs (which worked well when we would make a spicy bacon that involved cayenne pepper, crushed rosemary, and a lot of brown sugar), and getting Boars Head brand worked well, too (when we could find it; Giant likes to move things around in the store), but we wanted an alternative. I found a company called North Country Smokehouse that looked pretty good, and ordered some from them – we got their applewood smoked bacon and what they called pepper bacon. They had a nice flavor, though, to be honest, not as overwhelmingly nice as we’d hoped, given the price – but it turns out that they had one unexpected and rather nice side benefit: for an hour or so after cooking, the kitchen doesn’t smell like greasy bacon. It smells, instead, like someone’s been stoking a wood fire. I like it.

This is the time of year when people starting thinking about the things that charities wish they’d think about all year long, volunteering to work at soup kitchens, snagging coupons from the giving tree at church, that sort of thing. I’m the same way. I don’t think of myself as particularly generous, as a rule. About six months ago, I started a personal standard for what I give to the collection plate at church, which is: they get whatever the next to largest bill is that I have in my wallet. So if I have a twenty, and the next is a ten; they get the ten. As it happens, I don’t normally carry much cash, so that works out in practice to be a normal donation of five dollars a week. I will jigger that around a bit, as when I once had just gone to the ATM, had only twenties, and gave them one but dropped down one denomination next time, or sometimes I’ll give a little more, just because I’m feeling either guilty or generous. But this morning the pastor was talking about a visit he’d made to a young woman who is dying, and I thought with a start that I don’t even think about people like that. If I do think about it, I think well, there are people who, you know, handle that sort of thing, talking with the sick and dying. I realized with some discomfort that if all I’m doing is giving them five dollars a week, then thats not giving them much to work with.

An article in today’s Post also triggered a guilty spasm. Its about a woman who has taken on the task of supplying about seven hundred soldiers who are in the Army in Afghanistan with the niceties of life – disposable razors, throw away pens, things like that. She started because her son was in a specific unit, and it expanded as he asked her to send things for other in the unit. I was startled by her generosity, both of time and resources. I am always a bit uneasy about people like that. I can admire them from a distance, but up close, they scare me. I’m not sure why. So, from the comfortable distance of the dining room table where we were eating a magnificent Sunday brunch of orange chocolate coffee, waffles with white chocolate chips, and pepper bacon, I read about this woman, and looked at the picture of her living room just chock-full of packages, and thought ‘how do people do that?’ How do they get the drive and energy and compassion?

The NSA (yes, that NSA - the one colloquially known as No Such Agency) has a kids web site . From the Washington Post article:

It features the cartoon "CryptoKids," seven crime-fightin' math/code/language/technology baby geniuses. Rosetta Stone, for instance, is a language fox. According to the site, she has a "fox-cination with language and culture." (Those guys may be able to crack a 109-bit key elliptic curve algorithm in their sleep, but everyone can use rewrite.) The site teaches kids the difference between a code and a cipher, tells you that Rosetta Stone practices martial arts, and includes code-themed brain teasers and games.

Elliptic curve algorithm?

Intelligent Design; Inelegant Politics

From the New York Times web site:

DOVER, Pa., Nov. 9 - In the end, voters here said they were tired of being portrayed as a northern version of Dayton, Tenn, a Bible Belt hamlet where 80 years ago a biology teacher named John Scopes was tried for illegally teaching evolution.

I am pleased by this.

ID, it seems to me, speaks to two different, possibly overlapping, types of people: those who prefer to believe that humankind comes from divine activity, not the application of biological principles, and those who believe that the theory of evolution is incomplete, and until complete is not sufficient to stand alone as the definitive explanation of our origin.

I believe that the first group has as a hidden agenda the promotion of religious observance in public schools. I believe that the second group is mostly people from the first who don’t want to admit to that agenda, and sought an alternative explanation that would pass secular muster. A small percentage of them might well feel that evolution isn’t sufficiently proven, but I doubt that’s their compelling reason.

I don’t have a problem with proposing a religious alternative to evolution (though I don’t understand why those who believe that divine activity brought us here can’t incorporate the concept, accepting the possibility that the deity might have brought us into being through the evolutionary process -- perhaps they find the concept distasteful, or just prefer that the deity take a more direct approach) but I do have a problem with sneakiness. I think that the advocates of ID were trying to sneak in a religious agenda, and thats wrong.

What if they did it because they honestly thought that the theory of evolution was incomplete, and IT a valid alternative explanation for how we came to be, without regard to religious concepts? Then, I suggest, they were being preposterous, like the probably apocryphal story of the school board that ruled to make Pi exactly equal to three. Suburban school boards aren't qualified to judge the worth of scientific theory. They can have opinions, of course, as can we all, but they cannot implement them without sufficient justification. Its difficult to imagine what would suffice for such justification.

Political concepts and the commonweal don't mix well. I have heard of Catholic bishops saying that they would not give sacraments to politicians holding values with which they did not agree, or failing to speak out against practices with which they did not agree. Moral force can be quite powerful -- but this isn't a theocracy, and we don't live according to the views of a mullah. Our lives can and should be guided and informed by religious and philosophical concepts, but thats it. The ability for religion to rule stops at the church door -- and at the door of the school board.

Improvements

I was talking with my wife about a piece of software that I was installing at work, and I used the phrase ‘...and then they improved it.’ By which she understood that I meant "they took a piece of software that worked in a perfectly obvious way (or at least, in a way that I had learned to use) and made changes to it 'in the name of improvement’ that I regard as having been made ‘in the name of impediment’.

That phrase came to my mind this morning as I was looking at the backup software that we use routinely. It’s been having some problems -- announcing that it can’t back up files which, when you manually start the job, it then goes and does; occasionally having two copies of the job running at the same time. I’ve been thinking of removing it, cleaning it out entirely, and then reinstalling it. Only, its not quite that simple. For one, it seems to think that it needs to be running all the time (or at least resident all the time), and so if it is invoked, and finds that it’s not in the startup list for the PC, it adds itself. Even if there’s another instance in the list that was unselected, it does this. So when I remove it, that unselected option is still going to be there, with no apparent way of removing it. (Short of going into the registry, an exploit that I view with as much equanimity as going for an audit.) I’m sure that the people who put that hook into the software regarded it as a Good Idea -- an Improvement -- but I don’t, and it irritates me that I can’t just say ‘don’t do that.’ As a semi-software guy myself, I know why people don’t give users the option to make decisions like that, and I usually support that idea. But there are times when you want to slam your fist down on the keyboard and say ‘just DO it, dammit!’ -- but you can’t. I know this isn’t a big deal, still, it is an irritant.

It always impresses me when something really does get improved, or when people give thought to design. Useful design, not 'oh isn't that cute' design. I don’t hear of it happening that often -- the only instances I can think of are that Volvo concept car that was designed by a crew that was predominantly women, an office printer (don’t recall if it was HP, but I think so) that would note when it was first used in the morning and, over time, would turn itself on five minutes before then, so that you didn’t have to wait for it to warm up. (I hate waiting for the printer -- in our office, when I go by, if its sitting there in ‘power saver’ mode, I always hit start, just so the next person won’t have to wait.), and the Mozilla suite of software. Those are good improvements. They make (or have the potential to make) my life better.

But generally, I think -- Improvements. Fah.

Foundationing

Which I realize isn't a word.

I sometimes hear how, with a small amount of money, you can make a difference in people's lives. By small, I mean somewhere in the fifty to one hundred dollar range.

You can set up a one-time or recurring scholarship to a local school, or donate it to an organization, or...gee, I don't know. Do Stuff.

I think sometimes about doing that. Closest I've come was the Great Pizza Feed at the local cop shop (thinking of doing it again). But thats about it.

Wonder what it would be like?

Fill in the Blanks

If a church loses its tax-exempt status as a result of (fill in the blank, or choose one: an impartial review by competent tax specialists/a chaotic review by constitutional scholars and the press/whimsy), is that "a direct assault on freedom of speech and freedom of religion"?

Thats what the rector of a church in California said when he was informed that the church might lose its tax-exempt status as a result of an anti-war speech given by a guest lecturer.

I think he's wrong.

Loss of tax-exempt status has significant effects on the financial health of a church, and contemplation of that loss can cause the church to curtail activities -- but the church makes that decision, not the IRS. They can still speak; they can still practice religion.

As a side note, I don't think this question would come up if we trusted our agencies of government to be impartial and expert in what they do. Sadly.....(fill in the blank)

Premeditating Homicide

There is the possibility that, in six years, at right about this time, I will kill my daughter.

Okay, probably not. But I'll be thinking about it. Because this is when the Education issues come out for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and who knows how many other papers and magazines. Its when I leaf through them slowly, reading the articles, thinking Wow! You can take a course in that? And My Gosh, look at how terrific that campus looks! And gee, damn, I sure don't remember going to the local bar with any of my instructors for a lazy beer and long, rambling discussions! The sight of all that academic freedom -- hell, freedom, period -- awes me. Makes me damned envious, in fact. Where was this stuff when I went from high school into the military, the military into college, rushing through in two years, back into the military, then into a corporation? And these kids are just having this stuff handed to them?

That we have a secret fund that we call the First Year Fund, which is to fund, within reason, pretty much anything she wants to do for the first year after high school (it started as the First Year of College, but we expanded the idea), so that she could feel some freedom, not move in lockstep, see what some of the world is like -- well, all that's true. Its because of my experiences that I want to be sure she feels more freedom to choose than I did. But still, I want her to know that this is a Big Deal, having all this academic freedom, a smorgasboard of opportunity. I want her to savor it, wander through it, tasting the fruit, not limiting herself to one school or one discipline or one career path, not focusing too quickly. I want her to grow... and to know that she can do whatever she wants. This is where she can make it happen.

I will try very hard not to shove this down her throat, and if she demonstrates the normal teen-aged ennui about it all, not treating it as the really big opportunity that I'd kill for, I will try not to go ballistic. I will try not to kill her.

Making her wish she were dead, on the other hand.....

Quis custodios ipsos custodiet ?

A lengthy article in today's Washington Post descibes the FBI's expanded use of National Security Letters in terms, and with examples, not likely to win friends at the FBI -- though it will likely influence them.

There seem to be one basic question:

Should the FBI specifically, and the government generally, have the authority to acquire and keep detailed information about anyone, based solely on their stated belief that they need it?

Such information can include data of any kind deemed desirable by the person issuing the NSL. The agency is not required to tell the target that information is being acquired, and will in fact explicitly tell the keepers of the information that they are legally prohibited from informing the target. And the agency can keep the information found forever, whether or not it proves relevant to a specific investigation.

The argument in favor of allowing such authority seems to be in two parts: ..
a) It's necessary to defend against terrorist attacks
b) If you have nothing to hide, nothing will be found, so whats to worry? And if you do, but it isn't used against you, so ditto.

It's difficult to be against what these people are trying to do. Their methods are another story.

Fun at Work

The other day I told the guy that I work for -- one of them, thank you, matrix management -- that I was enjoying something that I was doing, and would, in fact, do it for free. He said that he was glad I was having fun, though I imagine he thought I was a little strange for mentioning it. He knew why I said it, though -- it was technical work, which I don't often get to do.

What I'm doing is getting my organization up to speed quickly on a new series of software to be installed on multiple platforms. Most of the platforms are the same; not all. And it will all take a fair amount of customization as well as some tuning. I want to make people think that its worth having me do this so that they will be willing to pay a significant part of my salary to do it, and hence, so I can leave the job I have now, which frequently enough, sucks.

Doesn't hurt that I'm having fun, though.

Flicks

I was just thinking that I ought to do more exercising. ‘More’ is somewhat of a misstatement, as in order to do more, I’d have to be doing some now, unless of course you say well, none is a number....but I think that would be being sly.

What puts this into my mind is all of the contortions and flips that I saw Antonio Banderas do last night in The Legend of Zorro. LOZ wasn’t my first choice for a film, but as my child was coming along, it was either that or Chicken Little. I think I would have liked CL, but the offspring chose LOZ, so thats where we went. And that was okay, because the goal wasn’t to see either of these so much as it was to spend some time with both the partner and the offspring, and we did that. An extra benefit for the offspring was that at the end of LOZ I made a bet regarding how the hero would escape the perilous situation, and I lost, so this morning’s payment of allowance included an extra buck. She actually doesn’t care about money too much – she is well known for leaving dollar bills wherever she was standing when she got them – but she liked the idea of winning, especially since the odds were that if I won, I wouldn’t have asked her to pay up.

As it happens, I thought LOZ was not all that great as a film, unless you liked contemplating what it’d be like to have CZJ as a mother, with all of that cleavage showing up all the time. What’s the equivalent of the Oedipus complex – is it Electra? Whatever, any male offspring of someone who looked like that would certainly have Issues. The kid did, anyway, but they stemmed more from being an arrogant mouthy kid than anything else. I think that the people who made the film thought they’d make one that Disney would have been proud of, and insofar as they broadcast just about every plot point, and had very simple dialogue, they did it. I wasn’t expecting or wanting Great Acting, but CZJ's heaving bosom was about the extent of it. Though seeing a horse leap on top of a moving train was kind of interesting..

Of course, I didn’t really think that it was a real horse on top of a real train any more than I thought that it was Antonio himself doing all those flips, twirls, and leaps, but it was nice, anyway, and as I said, it did make me think that I ought to exercise more. It also put my in mind of how I’ve always liked Spanish architecture – or perhaps I should say ‘americanized spanish architecture’, as I recall that one piece I always liked was a spanish-style chair and table that the lead actor on the Mission:Impossible series had (the second one, not the original), and I would bet that that hardly qualifies as ‘liking Spanish architecture’. Neither does liking refectory tables, either, though I do.

The movie – parts of it were so bad that I spent time out in the lobby, which was good for a different reason; I got to watch about a hundred fifty teens mill around before going in to see Saw II, which I know nothing about but which was apparently quite the deal for them. Most of them were just kids going through whatever forms of adolescent angst is normal, but some of them – well, I thought that I wished the girls had been around when I was in high school, they being apparently full-fledged members of Slutz R’ Us, and I thought that if any of the guys ever showed up at our house, we’d have had an instant ‘no way are you going out with that guy’ conversation with the offspring.

Of course, I know that not all of the apparent sluts actually are, no matter what the current articles about kids and oral sex say, and not all of the apparent gang-bangers are, either – but my feeling is, if thats the way they chose to look, then they get the benefit of how I feel about that. And giving me the opportunity to think about adolescents a little bit, just sitting and watching them mill around, cringing at some of the things they said and did (Not with my daughter, you don’t, you son of a bitch!) – that was all worthwhile. And I did go back in time to see the big ending, which Walt would have loved.

But I think that next time, I’ll see Chicken Little. At least that way, I wouldn't be thinking about exercise.

Harriet's Successor

Generally, I like what I see of him. I'm sure this is a great comfort to him, though, I hope, not to the Bushter, who couldn't come up with someone like this first time out of the box.

Sunday Notes

Some interesting reading in today's paper.

The Washington Post lays out a presentation made by Robert Miller of Delphi, the automotive parts company, here. Some key points:

• Parts will be made where it makes financial sense for them to be made. That determination is a blend of the absolute cost of manufacture and the cost of getting the item to where it's needed. That last phrase is why complex and complete electromechanical assemblies are built near the automotive plants that need them -- until the cost of making them overseas and shipping them here becomes cost competitive; then it becomes a timing question -- can they be gotten here as fast as ones made locally. Long delivery pipelines translate to less market flexibility.
• He does not intend to declare bankruptcy, but neither does he not intend to declare bankruptcy. He sees it as an option; if it is one that's chosen, it is just one option, and it's a process, not a once and done event. And if you do it, do it in an organized, planned way -- don't surprise anyone, and don't be in denial about what's happening, what's going to happen, what's not going to happen, and what might happen.
• Merging the assets and liabilities of multiple ailing companies can produce a single successful company -- but not if the process includes formal bankruptcy proceedings.
• Funding of pension guarantees has to be reflected in current statements of financial position. They are as much an impact to that position as a natural disaster or an explosion at a supplier's plant.
• The future is in things like hybrids.

Which brings me to a different article, same paper, about hybrids and hummers. People who drive these are used to getting attention, though for different reasons. The person who drives a hybrid exults in seeing the miles per gallon indicator floating at 55 or 60 mph -- and sometimes going to infinity. The person who drives a hummer delights in being up higher than most others, being able to see further, feeling safer, and seeing other cars move out of his way. Neither is morally superior. I do think that hummer drivers ought to be able to get all the gas they want, at a guaranteed price. Twenty bucks a gallon sounds about right... for now.

The New York Times has some excerpts from Putinki: A Short Collection of the President’s Sayings, that are pretty cool. Incidentally, this is President Putin:

In answer to the proposal that Russian troops take part in operations in Iraq, you just want to say, “Right, like we’re that stupid.”

Speaking about Russian’s oligarches, “Everyone has to understand, once and for all, that you’ve got to obey the law all the time, and not just when someone’s got you by the short hairs.”

About what he’d really like to do as president: “I can’t go beyond the framework of the Russian Constitution, although sometimes I’d really like to.”

On contrary opinions: “I don’t want to say that your opinion means absolutely nothing to us and that we want to spit on everything. No, we will listen to your advice...with good will.”

On perfection: “ If a person is satisfied with everything, then he’s a complete idiot. A healthy person with a normal memory can’t always be satisfied with everything.”

On what the future holds: “We’re all going to die out like dinosaurs.”

And an article on the nomination process for the O'Connor seat brings up the concept of 'superprecedents', making the point that there are some decisions, such as Roe vs. Wade, which have become so intregrated into the fabric of the law that it is useless to contemplate changing them -- which is exactly what the strict constructionists would like to do. Their feeling is, nothing is written in stone (with the possible exception of the ten commandments) and everything can be changed -- especially with the right nominee.

Should be interesting.

And finally, one of my favorite subjects: concierge medicine... From an article in the New York Times:

Despite the drastic decrease in patient load after he changed the way he ran his practice, Dr. Kaminetsky's personal compensation and the salaries of his office staff members increased by about 60 percent.

Must be nice.

Super Superman

I'm not a fan of comics, per se, but I like good illustration. This piece was done by Kevin Nowlan... I think that it conveys the early version of the character very well.



This and other of his works can be found here.
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Nocturals

Had the dammnedest dream the other night.

Don't recall most of it, but this part: a person who could walk up to a car that was pretty beaten up -- rust, pieces falling off, the whole disreputable bit -- and, by laying his hands on it, restore it back to its original gleaming state. Heal it.

This person was known as the 'Road Messiah'.

Got to stop eating those jalapenos before bedtime !

Stray Info

A couple of interesting tidbits I've read recently....

According to CNN, a woman in, I believe, Oregon is accused of buying a lottery ticket with a stolen credit card. The ticket is a winner -- one million dollars worth. But Oregon says that if she did use the stolen credit card, she doesn't get to keep the money. I suppose the point is that they don't want you to benefit from theft, so whether you bought a winning lottery ticket or a candy bar, you don't get to keep it. Somehow, that doesn't seem fair, though. Not sure why....
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A book I'm reading, Structures, in a section about stresses and strains (which turn out not to be the same thing) describes how stress can focus at a point. The example is a sheet of metal where the lines of stress are evenly spread as they propagate across the sheet. When a hole is placed in the sheet, as with a door or window, the lines diverge, concentrating at the corners and along the edges of the hole until they can spread out again. When the forces are concentrated, the effect is greater -- to the point that the material can tear even though, overall, the stress is below the breaking point of the material. I wonder if thats why you can open a bag more easily by snipping (or biting) a small tear first?
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Last night I was rereading sections of The Vicar of Christ, a novel by Walter F. Murray, and came across this:

The dignity of man rests at the core of the galaxy of American constitutional values. Its spirit suffuses every clause. Government's duty to protect and cherish is the moral and political motive force of the whole constitutional system.

Wow, I thought. Suffuses every clause? I liked the way that was put, and found myself wondering if the character of the fictional Chief Justice had had words lifted from an actual justice. So, I google'd it -- and found this --

The Supreme Court Historical SocietyIts spirit suffuses every clause. Government's duty to protect and cherish that dignity is the moral and political motive force of the whole constitutional ... www.supremecourthistory.org/ 04_library/subs_volumes/04_c09_l.html - 77k -

I was right, I thought, smiling, and went to the page -- where I found the full reference:

For anyone interested in the history and practices of the Court, these works--and especially the novels -- offer a body of well-researched background information, coupled with a soap opera plot that includes some painful romantic entanglement for the susceptible protagonist. But the most valuable lesson they impart is that the adjudication of constitutional rights involves a continuing dialogue between the Justices and the public over the meaning of the national experience and the democratic ideals that have shaped it. "The dignity of man rests at the core of the galaxy of American constitutional values," comments the Chief Justice in The Vicar of Christ.

Its spirit suffuses every clause. Government's duty to protect and cherish that dignity is the moral and political motive force of the whole constitutional system.[35]

In such imagery one may also glimpse the literary legacy of the Warren Court.

Oh.