The News Scares Me... I should just stop reading it.

In a matter of minutes surfing the news agents in my favorites, I come across some seriously disturbing stories. The article discussing Scalia's vision about the court system does a nice job describing his judicial restraint and philosophy, but I'd like the reporter to go one step further and identify the kinds of unequal and sick treatment that the court "bettered" before a racist or sexist or and -ist state legislated equality. Brown v. Board? Miranda v. Arizona? Tinker v. Des Moines? just to name a few. Legislatures in the South and many other places were NOT giving blacks equality in schools and probably still wouldn't be today if the Court didn't serve as an "activist". I honestly understand the "strict constructionist" idea, I mean I get it, but what I don't get is how do you justify it as a rational approach to a government that is always changing? When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. —. Abraham Maslow

Other acts of arrogance by aloof leaders comes from Prince Charles. In the article, it is revealed that he criticizes people who have "ideas above their station" and that schools are doing a disservice to students by convincing them that with a little effort, everybody can be "somebody". Hmmmm, I wonder what age Charles was when he realized that he WAS somebody and his teachers didn't have to lie to him and tell him that. Again, and he's a leader?