This episode needs a warning label.

We recorded on the road in a hotel lobby,

and so the sound quality is authentic.

Yeah, that's it. I'll go with authentic.

Well, whiskey come and take my pain,

no, my heart needs my brain.

Oh, whiskey.

Don't you think alone when you can drink it all in with Rikishay's Three Whisky Happy Hour?

Join your bartenders, Steve Hayward, John You, and the International Woman of Mystery, Lucretia.

Well, this life that I've been living ain't too easy on the soul Sometimes you got to give it and let that whiskey flow The Three Whiskey Happy Hour is back on the road For the second week in a row Lucretia and I are here in Tampa, Florida John Yu was supposed to be here, but he flaked But this gives us the opportunity to catch up with someone we've been wanting to catch up to you

for a long time and that's glen elmers hi glen welcome i'm steve hi linda thank you for having me

very happy to see you right right so we're going to catch up with what you're up to in a bit but

let's punch out a couple of news stories quickly and then use a news story to get into some serious

things and the first one is just an observation i'm not sure it's worth discussing much, but this week two Supreme Court justices made news. One, by having to make an apology for making a personal attack because a fellow justice doesn't go on feelings, you know, right? Sotomayor has a case of the feelings. That's her jurisprudence.

And then, of course... That's what she said from the beginning, if you'll recall. Yeah, I do, exactly. She's living up to it. And meanwhile, you had Clarence Thomas talking about the Declaration of Independence and giving a very substantive view of constitutionalism. And the contrast there, as I say, it doesn't require much comment, but the floor is yours if you want to. Yeah, I mean, isn't it astonishing that it, since the left has no regard for precedent in jurisprudence,

they also have no regard for precedent in decorum either, right?

So I guess it's not a surprise that it's always someone from the left who breaks these longstanding norms.

Right. Well, another thing that's really great, I I would expect Lucretia would say this is that she's not even the dumbest member of the corps.

No, she has been surpassed in that. She used to be, but she has now been surpassed. Right. The dumbest

and the most loquacious. I get such a kick out of someone who did

these word counts. Yeah. And the youngest and clearly most inept justice is by far the most talkative. I know. She's going to be the gift that keeps on giving for a very long time, I'm afraid. I do have to tell you, I have a little bit of, I don't know if envy is quite the right word, but I kind of look at people like that.

And, you know, I remember being a young graduate student in Claremont and being kind of for the longest time, afraid to say anything, just because I don't know anything.

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