Renquist is dead.

[Island Blue]

Thought I'd post it here just in case anyone hasn't been to GD in the past few minutes. It was announced on CNN. Oh great, now we're really fucked.

[TayTay]

1. Just when you think it can't get any worse

It gets worse. Rehnquist was a conservative and a vote against Roe, right?

I am on so much overlaod that I almost can't even process this. It's just one of the worst periods in the history of America.

[Island Blue]

3. Do you think Commander Bunnypants

is in a corner sucking his thumb yet? He's really not good at multi-tasking. It's hard werk.

This is certainly one of the worst periods in American history that I can remember. I know '68 was a really bad year, but I was too young then to comprehend what was going on. Shit, shit, shit why couldn't things have turned out differently last year?

[karynnj]

5. It's funny that in spite of everything, I think there was more optimism

then. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed, there were riots in so many cities, the Vietnam War was getting worse, Nixon got elected, but there were also undercurrents that were good:

- the woman's movement was becoming real - women were getting jobs they never got before

-the civil rights act was real

- The media was documenting the need for social change and was beginning to turn against the war

-the music was very positive and the overall feeling was that time was on our side. We were going to win (over the Nixons and Agnews) and things would be better.

Maybe it was that I was 18 then, going off to college, but I just don't see the same hope for the future that was there then.

[jillan]

2. I just feel like sitting in a corner and having a good cry...

Think I'm going to go rent a movie, and forget about the real world for awhile!

[pinkflower21]

4. Wow

I didn't even realize Rehnquest was that close to death. I thought he wasn't, which is why he issued his statement about staying on.