For anyone who likes behind-the-scenes articles about the Supreme Court, here’s a piece about Justice Alito’s first months on the Court. Whatever your opinion of his judicial philosophy, it’s a very interesting article in which he’s rather open about what the experience has been like.
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Oldest People
The world’s oldest person has died at age 116.
Nobody has yet broken the record of Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 and died in 1997.
This led me to some related links on Wikipedia:
– Oldest people – a list of various people who have at one time held the title of the world’s oldest living person.
Next Book
I seem to be on a fiction-reading kick, which hasn’t been the norm for me in the past couple of years; I’ve tended to read more non-fiction. But the other day I finished reading a new novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (it has a fun website, but don’t click on too many objects if you prefer going into a novel cold). And last night I picked up Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I thought about reading it last year, but I wasn’t in the mood; now I seem to be. I’ve read the first 20 pages and I’m already hooked.
It’s loooooong, so it should keep me entertained for a while.