Souter on my Mind

Ran across this entertaining article from the NY Times about former Justice David Souter, whose personal and juidicial philosophy represent the purest form of NH individualism possible... namely, not excepting any gifts as a Justice, and escaping Washington as quickly as possible to retreat to a farm house in the woods with no e-mail, TV, or answering machine and hike mountains. Damn. Souter remains one of my favorite public figures of recent memory, as he is one of the few who has been able to keep the responsibilities of his position pure and intact during his career.

This might come across as being written by a self-indulgent liberal, but what writer isn't:

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/souters-summits/