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424. Hissy fitting?

By Joel Jacobsen

ABC's Jake Tapper, who almost certainly dislikes the Elvis Costello song "Brilliant Mistake," has a blog entry with a prediction from University of Texas professor Lucas Powe.  Unfortunately, the quotation doesn't answer the mystery of why he didn't drop the final "e" from his surname, like Al Green.  Wouldn't Lucas Pow be a great name?  As good as Morris Zapp. Maybe the professor does pronounce it "pow."  I'd advise him to, if he ever goes to spend a year as a guest scholar at a German university.  Anyway, here's the professor's prediction about next year's State of the Union: 'I'm willing to bet a lot of money there will be no Supreme Court justice at the next State of the Union speech.'Added Professor Powe, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, 'you don't go to be insulted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 31, 2010 (boomark / email).