I'm watching the Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings. I'm appalled by their uselessness for it is obvious that everybody is playing to the cameras and that this pathetic spectacle has been so rehearsed that the end is known and that no important questions will be answered. So what is the point of it all? It seems that it may be time for Congress and the political establishment to do everybody a favor and save us from this lamentable theater, which just reminds those of us who care about the US Supreme Court that this exercise has stopped to be useful because the fear of the unknown and of the political embarrassment, has led all the participants to agree to make a process, that needed to be somewhat authentic to be fertile, predictable and sterile.
I've finally caught World Cup fever. It took a long time, but I have it. The best thing for me about this World Cup is that I'm not going to watch it in the US for the first time in 16 years !!! It's a pain when you are a soccer football fan to watch the World Cup in the US because Americans don't care and have other worries while the rest of the world is following religiously what it considers to be the most important sporting event. Thus, even though I'm going to have a working vacation, I can't complain and I'm actually looking forward to the summer: Rafa Nadal is back and I won't have to watch the beautiful game on ESPN, everything is perfect in my small universe.