As I type this post, I am wearing a deep, creased frown of worry and inconsolable sadness. I am bereft.

I, along with my nation, mourn the loss of Chief Justice William H. Renquist. Bill, we hardly knew ye.

Now, I ain’t one to speak ill of the dead, so I won’t dwell on Nixon appointee Renquist’s legacy. But, fucking hell, I am sick in my heart to think of G.W. Bush getting not just an associate justice appointment on the bench, PLUS the Chief Justice.

People moaned and bitched and criticized Bill Clinton. But, at the end of his presidency, there seemed to be some tangible changes in the world. Good shit, too, like a budget surplus, opened channels of diplomacy and dialogues on health care and education.

GWB will leave a tangible legacy, as well. Dead people in Iraq, dead people at home, world-wide contempt for the U.S. at record highs, education at new lows (creationism, anyone?) and trillions in debt. Now, undoubtedly a Supreme Court more conservative than any since 1789 or so. He’d probably exhume and re-animate William Jenning Bryant to really bring back some god-fearing Christianity if he could.

If there is an “Intelligient Designer” he’s a great, big dick, or he really hates us here in the old U.S. of A.