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14 September 2008

80 over 80 The most powerful octogenarians in America. (I thought this was really neat.)
→[More:]Top "80 Over 80" honors this year go to John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of the majority opinions in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush. Truly a geezer among geezers, Stevens has demonstrated that he's still pounding the gavel with as much enthusiasm as a justice 10 or 15 years his junior. He may not be worth $18 billion like Kirk Kerkorian or have won a Nobel Prize or even a Pulitzer. But if the venerable justice were to die of natural causes tomorrow, every last American might feel the effects.

post by: Claudia_SF at: 02:15 | 3 comments

Interesting. Did everyone see the reel geezers movie reviewers? There was a link on the blue a few months back.

However, I've been reading "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell and he seems more youth-oriented:

In some kinds of skilled work, such as politics, for example, it seems that men are at their best between sixty and seventy, the reason being that in such occupations a wide experience of other men is essential. For this reason successful politicians are apt to be happier at the age of seventy than any other men of equal age.

That was in 1930 though, modern medicine might have shifted it upwards.

posted by TheophileEscargot 14 September | 02:40

What, no Charlie Munger? Worthless!

At least they got Joe Jamail in there.

posted by mullacc 14 September | 03:41

ug, i loathe phyllis schlafly. does it never hit these women who oppose female equality and feminism that they themselves have jobs, degrees and demand to be treated as equal? it's the 'i'm the only exception rule.' i wish they'd all go back to the kitchen they advocate and let the rest of us females soldier on with our lives.

posted by eatdonuts 15 September | 21:57

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