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malthaussen

(18,629 posts)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 09:40 AM Jan 2013

I remember Bork most for the Saturday Night Massacre,

... and I was certainly pleased when his nomination to the Court failed. A tragedy, certainly, by the actual meaning of the word, but the thing I've always thought interesting about tragedy is that the "fatal flaw" is, after all, a flaw. We were better off without him.

-- Mal

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