Bush supporters say Mukasey, who was chief judge of the high-profile courthouse in Manhattan for six years, has impeccable credentials, is a strong, law-and-order jurist, especially on national security issues, and will restore confidence in the Justice Department."law-and-order jurist"? As opposed to what?
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, September 17, 2007
I'm all for chaos and disorder
It appears that Bush has chosen Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. This amused me: