Sheesh, people are dumb.

Perusing USA Today (McPaper under my hotel door each morning is one of the few perks of traveling for work, especially when the hot tub/pool in this hotel seem to be perpetually non-functional, and the door from the parking lot cannot be opened from outdoors with the keycard, which I suspect may be related to the sign on the lobby window, in which the local sheriff warns hotel guests of the signs that a fellow lodger may be using his or her room to cook up some crystal meth-whew! That aside took on a life of its own.), I come across a letter from Harold Daigle, Jr., of the fair city of Baton Rouge. (Or "Red Stick," as I like to think of it.) Mr. Daigle says, in part, "When liberals want to use the courts for creative legislation, the Constitution is viewed as a living document, for example, creating the right to abortion...The real purpose of a Supreme Court justice is to protect the Constitution, not interpret it and shape it to fit the current whim of modern pop culture."

Oh, really, you backwoods Bubba? Well, let's just see what the founding fathers had to say about the internet, then. If we can't interpret the Constitution, then I guess we simply can't allow the Court to rule on any case if the issue at hand isn't explicitly covered in the Constitution. Which, by the way, also doesn't explicitly ban abortion, either. Unless you consider the fetus a living being from the moment of conception, in which case I think all fetuses should be named in utero, should be claimed on taxes...hell, you could even take out a life insurance policy the moment you discoverd the pregnancy, and collect on it in the sad event that you're not able to carry it to term. Oh, wait, now I'm just being crazy.

A hobby of mine is to try to suss out an e-mail address for those whose opinions irritate me, and then let them know about it. Unfortunately, there are 3 Harold Daigles listed in BR, and none with an e-mail address that I could locate.

Oh, well, guess it's back to my preferred Letters reading: People Magazine.

P.S. The spellchecker tried to turn "fetuses" into "fetishes." Hmm...