Ten years ago today, five members of the U.S. Supreme Court decided the 2000 presidential election by rendering a verdict in Bush v. Gore that stopped the recount, such as it was, in Florida. I remember where I was at the time. I was at the Carousel Mall in Syracuse watching the news on a TV in a store window - real movie stuff. A woman next to me said, "thank God." I wanted to tell her, "you can thank somebody else for that - just you wait."
Yeah, this is short. So sue me. I think everybody who has not yet written a diary today should write one just like this telling the rest of us where they were in 12/12/00 when five Supreme Court justices called it on behalf of a bare minority of Americans. That is all.