Don't Want to be Anything Where I Don't Know When to Stop

Well, faithful players of the Song Lyric Guessing Game, no one was able to correctly name R. Kelly's epic anthem "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" as the source of yesterday's post title. Keep your heads up though, a brighter day has come. We'll see if anyone can triumph today.

There has been a bit of an uproar over a 1985 document where Judge Samuel Alito denounced racial quotas and stated that the constitution did not protect a right to an abortion. For a moment, let us not focus on the divisive issues that such a document raises in reference to Alito's nomination. Instead, I would like to look at Alito's statement in defense of the document. In response, he stated that those sentiments were simply the views of "an advocate seeking a job."

What does that mean Sam? Are you the kind of nominee who is just going to play to the crowd in order to move up the ladder or was that really how you viewed those issues in 1985? As controversial as those issues are in contemporary American society, I would rather have someone who stated that they believed in those issues for their own reasons and did not espouse them simply because they were looking for a new job.

Quick Thoughts on a Wednesday Morning

• After disliking Joaquin Phoenix so much when he played Commodus in Gladiator, I want him to get killed in every movie that I see him in now. In other words, things don't look good for Johnny Cash this weekend.
• This all-time NCAA Basketball tournament on espn.com is simply brilliant.
  
• We need to bring this guy in for pledging next year.
  
• Maybe if Coach K quit making American Express commercials, Duke would win a few more titles.
  
• Because of the above statement, I am already bracing for the wrath of Cody Blair.