July 27, 2005
Drapes
Our new Attorney General, I understand, took the drapes off the topless statue of the woman in the halls of justice. Maybe he moved the cameras around, as well, so that it wouldn’t appear that some of her anatomy was right over his shoulder like bothered his predecessor so much.
Maybe all this means that neither is he hung up on confining morality to sex, abortion, and gay marriage. Maybe it means he’s caught a glimpse of the vision that morality’s more about justice and peace and caring for the poor and oppressed. Maybe now he can even get over not being nominated to the Supremes and that maybe he’s found some other way to breast the trials and tribulations of his office.
Maybe. But given some of his old memos about Geneva and Guantanamo and his apparent lack of contrition, I’m not counting on it, drapes or no drapes.