Rehnquist dies
It's interesting to see how news events affect one another, in terms of prominence. The replacement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was all over the news until the terrorist bombs in London. Now, in the midst of the hurricane crisis, Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died.The stupid part will be the conspiracy theorists who question the timing. Believe it or not, I ran across a couple of Web sites where people speculated that the London bombings were done to take the attention off the search to replace O'Connor. I'm sure those loons are having a field day with the latest turn of events.
Now, not all conspiracy theories are false. I happen to have a folder marked "Conspiracy theory," and I've long since found almost everything in it to be legitimate. In other words, some outlandish things really are true. But there's also a thing called coincidence, and a thing called life. Just because one thing dominates the news, that doesn't mean other big things aren't happening.
I'm not sure why I typed all this. Maybe it's because I just found out about Rehnquist's death and wanted to write something about it. I must say that I admire his work ethic. He obviously found a job he enjoyed -- to the point that he insisted on cotinuing to work even while battling throat cancer at age 80.
Posted by Layla at 9:00 AM, September 04, 2005
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