A softball player who just happens to know the law, sign her up…

May 13, 2010 · Posted in Featured, Funny and Odd, Government, People in the news, Political Figures, Political Issues, Politics, Rant, Social Issues, Topic Blogs · Comment 

elena-kagan1Does this woman really matter to you?  If you look deep into the background of a possible supreme court justice, do you want actual bench experience or do you prefer someone who knows the law and has written a few hundred papers on well…the law?

Princeton graduate, Harvard Law Dean,…on the surface at least Elena Kagan would seem qualified to become a judge.   She has clerked for several well known justices, practiced law in the late 80’s and early 90’s, served as counsel under President Clinton, worked her way to Dean, and there is no doubt she is well versed in case law, precedent, state statues, etc.

Does not having any actual bench time deflate her credentials?  Personally, I don’t think it does and based on sheer knowledge and the circles she has been exposed to, Ms. Kagan could successfully perform her duties as justice.

So is she gay?  Does it matter to me, no.  Ok, let me digress here for a second, this is where I LOVE watching the news and reading media outlets.  Now to give you some background on this, recent photos have surfaced of Kagan playing softball.

There has always been a belief that softball was an outlet for lesbian athletes.  It’s not something that some jerkoff at a bar conjured up one night with his buddies, the sport became popular after WWII and caught on very quickly with many female, gay athletes.  Books have been written about it, one being “Diamonds are a Dykes Best Friend” by Yvonne Zipter.   Yes, that is an actual book, look it up.

According to the history, gay females found solace in playing this new sport which over the years has predominantly become a female based activity, thus even more perpetuating the stigma of softball and lesbians.  Sooooo…we have  a pic of Kagan playing softball…tada!

Strike up the butch band (insert marching people here and balloons aloft), brass section blaring (la da da da la)…here come the cameras…here comes the media (insert clowns dawning tricycles and small cars here)

Let’s focus on her legal experience first, either she makes the grade and gets appointed, or she doesn’t.  Once she becomes a justice or if she fails to get swarn in, the gay softball sideshow can continue on and makes for great pre-local news appetizer.  If  I sued a gay person for doing me wrong and I knew a presiding judge was openly gay, I wouldn’t worry much.  Unless of course I lose the case and being a dick, I would countersue for orientation discrimination.   SO THERE !!!!!!      That’s how our world turns, love it.

Can we for once leave this out of the appointment process?  I know gay rights are important but will a justice really make “all” the difference for a particular segment of the population, I don’t believe it.

We’ve seen how much real influence the Supreme Court has on state’s rights when it comes to gay unions and marriage…end of story.  The state of Arkansas could legalize the union of llama and field mouse, repeal it the next day, impose the right again, so on and so on…where is the Fed?

Good luck Ms. Kagen..appointment or not I won’t lose sleep.

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