Zero sum game. A reliable liberal replacing a reliable liberal. RBG's seat is the next likely to open up. Another zero sum appointment looms there. Maybe Anita Hill.

And speaking of the prez's tenure as Editor of the HLR. Try as I did last year, I was unable to find on the web any articles he wrote in the HLR to guage his positions. I couldn't even find any criticisms or commentary on anything he might have written for the Review. (Access to the publication on line is/was by subscription only.) (I had to settle on trying to read Michelle's senior theses at Princeton, which, I admit, I couldn't plow through. What I read left me non-plussed.(sp?))