Last year, I made the case against Sonyo Sotomayor based on the fact that she was ugly. Now it looks like the meme has caught on, with respect to Kagan:

Inside and out, Elena Kagan is vile and ugly (and I rarely, if ever, comment on a woman’s unfortunate genetic endowments but will forego that compact just this once, her outer being more likely a product of her inner self.)

I’m afraid I would have to agree with the sentiment.

I’ve been busy traveling and catching up on personal stuff lately, but I had to blog about this. So apparently Obama is about to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to be the Supreme Court replacement for David Souter. I know next to nothing about her jurisprudence, so I’ll leave that to legal scholars to discuss.

But I do know that she is butt ugly. I mean, seriously. Not that the two previous female members of the Supreme Court were beauty queens or anything like that. But at least they were normal looking, and in their youth they must have had something going on. But not this one. Sotomayor is hideous, and not in a manner that is just the ravages of age. Rather, she emerged from the womb looking that that, like some kind of toad-beast.

One imagines that her childhood was rough, as kids can be quite cruel to the ugly (and the obese, though thankfully Sotomayor doesn’t seem to be that). She probably didn’t date much, but lost herself in her legal books, letting the technical writings numb her to the feelings of loneliness that naturally come with being an unwanted and unattractive freak of nature. The only question is, did she allow such feelings to weigh her down, to become a chip on her shoulder that will direct her to exact revenge on the normals that enter her courtroom?

I suspect that the answer must be a resounding “yes”. Obama said, after all, that he wanted a justice who could feel empathy for the downtrodden. And how much better can you get than a woman who looks like the spawn of an elder one from the Cthulhu Mythos? Lucky for those of us who who do not resemble warted amphibians, Sotomayor will only represent 1/9 of the future court, her fury to be diluted by the more human, if not humane, members of the bench.

Let’s just pray for the continued health of the other 8 members of the Supreme Court.

UPDATE: Turns out my suspicions are correct [emphasis mine]:

The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,” as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. “She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue.” (During one argument, an elderly judicial colleague is said to have leaned over and said, “Will you please stop talking and let them talk?”) Second Circuit judge Jose Cabranes, who would later become her colleague, put this point more charitably in a 1995 interview with The New York Times: “She is not intimidated or overwhelmed by the eminence or power or prestige of any party, or indeed of the media.”

And those are comments from Democrats! Read more here.