I wasn't feeling too bad about Roberts until now. Of course Bush is going to nominate a conservative but Roberts doesn't seem too ideological.

But in the back of my mind I've had this suspicion that Bush is getting exactly the type of judge he wants but he managed to find one without enough of a public record to be Borked. This suspicion is strenghened now that Bush is nominating Roberts for Chief. Perhaps it's only a matter of administrative convenience so that O'Conner stays on longer. But I am concerned.

I'm proudly liberal on social issues and the Supreme Court has the final say so it's important to me. Sometimes I fear the country my children will grow up in. The solace I take is that the trend of history is for society to become more progressive. For example, I'm confident that some number of years from now we will look back on the current discrimination against homosexuals as we now look back on discrimination against blacks.

Or maybe I'll move to Holland...