In case you’ve been hiding under a rock on some distant planet the past week or so you’ve heard that there’s this Kavanaugh guy set to be a new Supreme Court justice following the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. I’ve heard everything from this guy’s our savior to this guy’s the devil. I find it all very uninteresting. Honestly, if they didn’t tell us, and they swapped out one guy on the Supreme Court for another, could any of us really tell the difference?
(I kind of feel the same way about the pope.)
Like most people in 2018 I’m never away from the Internet for more than a few hours (or a few minutes) at a time. From this past June 25 to July 2, however, I was traveling internationally with spotty Internet and news coverage at best. During this time there were exactly two pieces of information I was able to glean from traveler scuttlebutt:
- Anthony Kennedy was retiring the Supreme Court. Yawn.
- LeBron James was going to the Lakers.
What?!
This is news. This is going to be noticeable. LeBron in L.A.? All nine Supreme Court justices could walk down my street naked and I’d still be more interested in LeBron’s going to Lakers.
Priorities, people. Priorities.