From Powerline:

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, who exemplifies the curious affinity of the far left for Islamic extremism, has been suspended from his office for four weeks for asking a Jewish reporter whether he had been a "German war criminal," since he acted "just like a concentration camp guard." Livingstone refused to apologize for the incident. He also called the reporter's employer, London's Evening Standard, "a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots."

Came across this tidbit and it struck home. For I once lived on a small cove off of the Chesapeake Bay, a beautiful spot of water that I loved with all my heart. And for which I cared for and cherished, taking my responsibility as a lessee of such natural beauty quite seriously.

Put some self-important bureaucrats on the job and boom, we couldn't even plant greenery to prevent the erosion of the land which would, go with me here, add silt to that water where the waterfowl bred and fed.

Even so, the biggest Supreme Court news this week is the Anna Nicole Smith hearings.

Heh.

From Sfgate.com:

Future of nation's rivers, wetlands hinges on two key cases.

Samuel Alito will make his Supreme Court debut with a splash this week when the justices hear two cases that could determine the future of the Clean Water Act.

The cases, both from Michigan and scheduled for hearing on Tuesday, could have an enormous impact. For property-rights advocates, an unfavorable ruling could spread the shadow of federal regulation over every tiny stream and rivulet in America, stifling development.

Federal agencies would be powerless to prevent "the discharge of sewage, toxic pollutants and fill into ... the large majority of our nation's rivers, streams and other waters," said clean-water agencies from two-thirds of the states, including California.