A Little Humor Please

On the drive in to work I listened to the beginning of the Roberts hearings. I don't know why. As someone trained as a lawyer, these things make my skin crawl. You know Roberts is not going to answer a question about a specific case (no judge ever would), and he's certainly not going to "blow it" by saying something real stupid.

John Tierney in today's NYT has some suggested questions for the Senators that just might catch Roberts off-guard:

I'm not suggesting that Mr. Roberts is a liar, or that anything the Democrats ask today could stop him from being confirmed. But they might at least keep TV viewers awake by trying questions like these:

If Roe v. Wade were a tree, what kind of tree would it be?

Is there any chance that you could speed up Justice Stevens's retirement by addressing him as "Gramps"?