Robert Bork, a proposed nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, died yesterday at age 85. President Reagan had proposed him as a member of the highest court. The Senate hearings to confirm him were some of the best tv of the time and they showed some down and dirty political infighting. Bork did not help his own cause with his smug attitude.

Bork, an extremely conservative political thinker was a high ranking member of the Department of Justice in the 1970s, moved up the ladder after his "bosses" refused to follow Richard Nixon's order to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox which caused Nixon to fire them. Bork was happy to fire Cox (as soon as Bork became Acting Attorney General).

I greatly disliked the man's politics and his nature. Besides, he looked like an old lady's pudenda.