Conservative opponents of the Harriet Miers nomination have been arguing about whether Miers' having attended Southern Methodist University (SMU)- generally regarded as "the second-best law school in Texas- is indicative of her intellectual firepower (or lack thereof).
SMU, of course, is best known to college football fans as the only university in history to be given the "death penalty" by the NCAA, in which the football team was banned from competitiion for an entire season for violations that included receipt of payments from boosters by numerous players.
Perhaps when Miers said she opposed the "death penalty," she was talking not of capital punishment but of the football sanctions at her alma mater, and she's therefore not quite so liberal after all...
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 6, 2005 08:00 AMI liked Jon Stewart's comment last night about how she is sleeping with some guy...which leads me to think either she is a big ho or is a lesbian:P
Posted by: A at October 6, 2005 09:45 AM