Well, a lot went on while I was gone, especially with the Supreme Court. I’m not even going to comment on what they decided; I’m just so sick of it. It doesn’t even comfort me when they have a decision I agree with, because it’s just so arbitrary. We’re supposed to have a government we can trust, but instead we’re constantly waiting on these nine people to tell us what a couple page document actually means — and no one can ever predict what they’ll come up with. The Supreme Court should be this stabilizing force to government, but instead it’s this random factor, much of it controlled by what party held the presidency when a justice dies. It’s just beyond idiotic.

Again, the Constitution is only a couple pages. It takes like ten minutes to read. And if you have a handful of people whose only job is to read that document, then a Supreme Court decision should only take like a couple minutes to do. It’s should all be, “Yeah, that power for the government was in there.” or “No, that wasn’t in there.” This doesn’t take days of deliberations. If an issue is so complicated the answer of the constitutionality isn’t immediately obvious to everyone, that just means we need to reduce and simplify government until it is a simple question.

Wouldn’t that be a nice Supreme Court decision? “We couldn’t figure this out, so cut the government and reduce its power until this is a simple issue.” Split decisions means cuts to government power. Put that in the Constitution. In fact, with a couple hundred years of hindsight, I could write a much better Constitution than the one we have now. And make it even shorter.