Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."
-- radio host G. Gordon Liddy on Judge Sonia Sotomayor

I wonder if he made similar comments when Ginsberg or O'Conners were nominated. For that matter, I wonder how many female judges there are? Liddy had better hope he never has to appear before one as a defendant! ;-)

Would Sotomayor be #3, or have there been other women on SCOTUS that I can't think of off-hand? In fact, the only time that I did jury duty a woman was presiding over the court.

MANY years ago I used to listen to Liddy's radio show, he was a lot more interesting than Rush. But then he made a comment that everyone who had AIDS deserved it. Isaac Asimov died of AIDS from contaminated blood used during heart surgery. My sister and grandmother had to be tested for AIDS because of blood transfusions. That was when I stopped listening to him, when I finally realized he was just another blowhard.

Comments

[jaegamer.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm 54 and I've been in menopause for 10 years. I strongly suspect that menses are probably a think of the past for the judge. Liddy's been an idjit for a very long time.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I found Liddy to be an intriguing and respectable character when I read his autobiography, but that was when I was considerably younger. Now, like I said, he's just another blowhard. I think idjit is also an excellent term for him.