Score two for the home team

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Probably my favorite part of being a corporate whore is all the free food. As a production company, we deal with hundreds of different vendors, most of whom appreciate our business so much that they send their salespeople to visit us during the breakfast hours and deliver gratuity offerings. Our floor gets the Weatherford guys on Monday (kolaches and fruit), 29 gets Schlumberger on Tuesdays (breakfast burritos), etc. So that covers breakfast throughout the week.

Lunch usually consists of leftovers from one of the myriad meetings conducted throughout the day. If you can hold out until 1:30 or so, without fail you will find a secretary carting Mexican, barbecue, sandwiches, or some other lunch type food back into the break room for all to enjoy. It's amazing.

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So I've been watching the Roberts confirmation hearing yesterday and today. A few thoughts:

• For a process in which the object is to have Judge Roberts' voice heard, we sure do have to sit through a whole lot of long-winded garbage from, seemingly, everyone BUT Roberts. I'd put the speaking time at 70/30, in favor of the Senators.
• The distinction between politician and judge is glaringly obvious in these proceedings. It's almost disgusting that one can distinguish such a disparity in class, intelligence, and prudence (even in this isolated situation) between Roberts and several of our elected officials.
• There is no doubt that abortion is the central issue on every Democratic senator's mind.
• Ed Kennedy looks like Jabba the Hutt.

At the end of the day, there is no reason why Judge Roberts' nomination should not be confirmed. He's concise, composed, unbiased, and balanced, even in the face of all sorts of ridiculous probing and questioning. More and most importantly, his judicial philosophy undeniably embodies the platonic ideal of law, and he is arguably the most qualified nominee to ever go before committee. He's a lock.