I Read The Corner So You Don't Have To*

(* in homage to Ana Marie (Wonkette) Cox's mostly deserted old blog The Antic Muse)

JPod strikes the deepest blow yet against Ms. Miers. He compares her legal abilities to his acting talent. Which makes sense, you know, because Miers, regardless of whether she is qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court, was the managing partner of a law firm and the counselor to the President of the United States. And Jpod once got an ovation at the McLean Community Center. "Brilliant," as Andy might say.

"Let me offer you an analogy. I was a talented high-school and college actor. I even considered trying it as a career at one time. As an adult, I've been in community theater productions (favorably reviewed in the Virginia local weekly supplement of the Washington Post, yet!) and spent a year or so performing improv comedy in New York. I'm a more than decent semi-pro. But if you took me today and gave me a leading role in the Royal Shakespeare Company where I would have to stand toe to toe with, say, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and others, I would be hopelessly out of my depth. I would be able to give some kind of performance. But it would be a lousy performance, a nearly unwatchable performance.

Would that be because I hadn't acted at their level for a few decades? Would it be because I don't really have commensurate talent? Who knows? Who cares? I would stink. And based on the words she herself has written -- the clearest independent evidence we have of her capacity to reason and think and argue -- as a Supreme Court justice, Harriet Miers would be about as good."