Friday night news

MANIFESTO

I can ascribe my ignorance about this item to the fact that it was released at 9:30 PM Friday night, or I can just chalk it up to my own lack of attention. Let's put it this way: It certainly wasn't a topic of conversation on any of this morning's gabfests.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed over the course of at least five years to report his wife's income from a conservative think-tank on his financial disclosures, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.

Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, was paid $686,589 by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, according to a Common Cause review of IRS records. Thomas failed to note the income in his financial disclosure forms for those years, choosing instead to check a box titled "none" where "spousal non-investment income" would normally be disclosed.

Well, well, well. One of the stupidest SCOTUS justices ever is a crook to boot. Couple this with the fair Ginni's number one "This Year in Crazy" phone call to Anita Hill a few months ago, and you have the potential for one spouse to be behind bars and the other to spend some time in a rubber room.

Oh, that this comes to pass.