Documented prevaricator Maureen Dowd is still filling the pages of the NYT with her screeds. Today her target is Clarence Thomas, who apparently will never be forgiven by the Left for forgetting his place and hewing to the conservative side of the law. Unfortunately for poor Maureen, her diatribes have no credibility and no effect, no matter how much huffery and puffery accompanies the delivery. Her barbs are now pre-Tefloned.
The dissent is a clinical study of a man who has been driven barking mad by the beneficial treatment he has received. It's poignant, really. It makes him crazy that people think he is where he is because of his race, but he is where he is because of his race. Other justices rely on clerks and legal footnotes to help with their opinions; Justice Thomas relies on his id, turning an opinion on race into a therapeutic outburst.Posted by Alan at June 25, 2003 12:20 PMvia the New York Times