Go Fire Yourself

The Supreme Court ended its term yesterday with no Justice announcing retirement. The rumor had been there might be two--Rehnquist and O'Connor. (Note even if Bush got two conservative judges okayed for these positions, he probably wouldn't change the tenor of the court much. Now if Stevens left....)

This doesn't mean no one's leaving. We'll have to wait and see. In particular, Rehnquist seems quite ill and one wonders if he's fit enough to continue.

But ask yourself, if you had the best job in the world, with tremendous power and prestige, and one that required little or no work (if you didn't feel like it), and you had nothing much else to look forward to--would you fire yourself?

It makes me wonder about Jay Leno's announced retirement in 2009. Easy to say today, but let's see how he feels around 2008.