Reply #1: Watching Judge Sotomayor sitting there,

[Tangerine LaBamba]

stoic, charming, even smiling when you know she wants to deliver a knuckle sandwich, tells me everything I need to know about this soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice.

She is doing our gender proud, she is doing our profession proud, her dignity is making these anklebiters look like the yippy, impotent little lapdogs that they truly are, and I am just in awe of her ability to smile these fuckers on, as we say in the old 'hood, and let them hang themselves with all their words and their bigotry.

She's class. She's elegant. She's brilliance. And, best of all, she's street-smart.

I'm now officially a Great Big Fan of hers......................