A new Supreme Court justice is a big deal to those of us on this side of the pond. Lots of people are trying to figure out what John Roberts will be like. This article from the Washington Post sums it all up.
"You can follow the next two months of political thrashing and hullabaloo over the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, or you can get the whole thing over with by looking at how he handled a single french fry.
Thanks to a ninth-grader at Deal Junior High School who in 2000 committed the horrifying crime of eating a fry in the Tenleytown Metro station, we have as strong a look inside Roberts's mind as we're likely to get from weeks of investigation and hearings."
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( follow the cut tag )Actually, it's pretty perceptive.