33 most compelling reasons why we need a woman to replace judge souter in SCOTUS

1. oranges, when cut in half, sometime dribble abundant sweet-sticky orange-colored juice
2. those are good oranges
3. i hardly ever eat oranges
4. if i eat an orange i generally cut it in half, suck the juice and eat the pulp of one half, then do the same with the other half
5. this is a messy way of eating an orange which i nonetheless find satisfying
6. i have to wash my face afterward
7. i don’t remember the last time i ate an orange in segments
8. i like orange juice, especially from a carton
9. apples and oranges are both fruits and, contrary to common lore, compare perfectly well
10. i ate an apple yesterday; that was kind of rare, but not as rare as eating an orange
11. talking about apples makes me want to eat an apple; i think i’ll eat strawberries instead
12. off the top of my head, i can think of only two books with “orange” in the title, both having to do with female homosexuality
13. apples are either mentioned or alluded to in both titles
14. what’s with that?
15. when i was young my grandmother fed me orange segments
16. that’s a nice memory
17. in southern california i saw once tens of thousands of orange trees spread out in a valley
18. i thought it would be a stretch to call that an orange grove
19. i may have seen orange trees in florida but i haven’t recognized them
20. because of the citrus canker, many were destroyed
21. the most recent outbreak of citrus canker in florida was in 1995
22. i have no idea if it’s over, in spite of the fact that i live in florida
23. our relation to food, as to most objects, large and small, is entirely rootless
24. this makes me moderately-to-not sad
25. i imagine it must be nice to relate to food as a live thing, for instance by having a vegetable garden
26. i can’t see myself having a vegetable garden
27. i like processed food, like donuts
28. chain-store donuts must be the single most object-like food, the most remote from the natural roots of the food chain
29. even more than candy bars
30. don’t argue with me on that
31. i could totally eat a glazed donut right this second, or any other second of my waking life
32. my waking life would be vastly enlarged if i had glazed donuts at my disposal whenever i want them
33. i would hardly ever sleep