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Mississippi Sun Herald: Advisers want Bush to consider conservative men for court.

Duuuuh. I hope those advisers are being paid ridiculous sums of money.

The lede is telling:

Although some Supreme Court analysts think that President Bush will turn to a woman or minority to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the White House also is weighing a different kind of history-making pick: nominating a strong conservative who would change the direction and future of the court.

I love that the choice is either a “strong conservative” or a minority or woman.

So minorities and women can’t be “strong conservatives” …

No, I’m telling you: They can’t.

Conservatives contend that if Bush nominates a justice like O’Connor, he will have forfeited his opportunity to change the court.

My brain hurts.

But it does get better. See, you thought I was making fun of the reporter and the copy editor who wrote the headline, but the “former administration officials” are the ones telling the story:

Make the more controversial, conservative nominee first, and then turn to a woman or minority when Rehnquist steps down, the former officials have advised.

Now that’s some good, old-fashioned advising. You know? It all makes more sense if you translate it into Korean and then back to English again:

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Ah, much better.

About once a year, Taco Bell introduces a new menu selection.

The confusing thing is that they never introduce any new ingredients.

It seems that Taco Bell has adopted the language principle of crappy food creation: A finite set of parts can form an infinite amount of constructions.

Good thing words and sentences don’t give you diarrhea.