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• DAVID SOUTER TO QUIT SUPREME COURT: Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the one George Bush Senior picked without knowing that he was secretly a French liberal queer, will retire at the end of the current session because he wants to climb mountains in New Hampshire or something before dying of old age cancer. Now Barack Obama can put Bill Ayers on the bench, as has been his plan since he was conceived in a Kenyan labratory ostrich egg in 1961. [NYT ]