I knew it!
Jan. 4th, 2007 06:26 amApparently, then-associate justice Rehnquist suffered from "paranoid delusions" while in withdrawl from a habit-forming painkiller in the early eighties.
Now, I of all people don't hold drug addiction against anyone. Not with the relatives I've got. But no one thought a LEAVE OF ABSENCE might be in order when the man wandered into the lobby in his jammies?
I just wonder if this explains the jaunty Gilbert & Sulllivan braid he had put on the Chief Justice's robes.
The NPR story doesn't get posted until about 8:30, so it'll appear here once I'm home from washing the walls in the new place this afternoon.
Now, I of all people don't hold drug addiction against anyone. Not with the relatives I've got. But no one thought a LEAVE OF ABSENCE might be in order when the man wandered into the lobby in his jammies?
I just wonder if this explains the jaunty Gilbert & Sulllivan braid he had put on the Chief Justice's robes.
The NPR story doesn't get posted until about 8:30, so it'll appear here once I'm home from washing the walls in the new place this afternoon.