Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:25:36 -0500
To: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
Subject: Re: updated Bush v. Gore page

Carl,
 
    I am puzzled by the "discovery" that the court is
newly politicized.  Surely it was apparent to all and
even the subject of newspaper humor over 100 years ago.

   See
http://www.boondocksnet.com/dooley/dooley6.html
for the Mr. Dooley column which concluded with the following.

--- Bob


          "An' there ye have th' decision, Hinnissy, that's
shaken th' intellicts
iv th' nation to their very foundations, or will if they thry to
read it. 
'T is all r-right. Look it over some time. 'T is fine spoort if
ye don't care f'r
checkers. Some say it laves th' flag up in th' air an' some say
that 's where
it laves th' constitution. Annyhow, something's in th' air. But
there 's wan
thing I 'm sure about."

          "What's that?" asked Mr. Hennessy.

          "That is," said Mr. Dooley, "no matther whether th'
constitution follows
th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns."