Beware the 1st Monday in October

U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has died. He was a Nixon conservative, and his successor will be a Bush junior conservative. This does not bode well for women, lesbians and gay men, the disabled, the terminally ill, and many other constituencies.

Will we need to bring back those "keep your hands off my body" T-shirts? Will choice become a memory tucked into the My Reproductive Years era of my life?

Makes me long for something more potent than illicit medical marijuana.