So, Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring from the Supreme Court. Yikes!

Bitch, Ph.D. currently has more news, opinion, musings, thoughts, and ideas for activism than I can cope with at the moment.

The thought at the top of my mind is that if we want to keep a pro-choice Supreme Court, we need to make a hell of a lot of noise. Here's what I've done so far:

• Written e-mails to Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, thanking them for their statements saying that O'Connor should be replaced by a pro-choice ideological moderate. It's nice to be able to more or less take for granted that one's senators will do the right thing. I think it's important to let them know that we notice.


• Sent an e-mail to President Bush. Will he care? Probably not, but it might put a dent in his ability to claim that he has some kind of universal mandate to appoint right-wing nutjobs to high judicial office.


• Made a small donation to Dianne Feinstein's re-election campaign.

I'd like to encourage everybody reading this to call or write your senators. Particularly if you're not sure where they stand.