FRIDAY!!!!

 Friday! 

The Barret hearings have wrapped, and brother, was it ever an educational week.

Who knew that adopting children from a devastated nation was an act of racial hostility? Well, actually, DIH knew. When I adopted my child from a country in ruins I was told the same thing by an oddball or two. But given the fact that I had just adopted The World's Most Perfect Child Ever, I assumed they were just jealous. I bet Judge Amy Coney Barrett felt the same way. But unlike DIH she is clearly way too polite to mention it.

Who knew it was possible to sit through hours of Senate grandstanding without at least doodling on a notepad, or maybe even finding a partner for a game of hang-the-man? DIH could never have pulled that trick off, never.

Who knew refusing to speculate on someone else's speculation- oh, climate change catastrophe,for example- was an act of hostility?

And who ever dreamed of the day when Ibram X. Kendi, a Boston University professor of some spurious "Center for Anti-racist Research" would go down forever in the annals of the United States Senate, as a "butthead?"  Thank you, Senator Kennedy! 

DIH is thankful this circus is wrapped up.  So, she imagines, is Judge Amy Barrett and the entire Barret clan. After days of sitting perfectly still in the Senate chamber while their mom was being grilled, I be those kids will be begging to rake some leaves.

Which, of course, is further proof of Amy Barrett's genius.