It was a dark and stormy night and ... oops! Well it was kind of cool and rainy, but the storms mostly missed the Twin Cities. The Wilde Cafe proved itself not quite ready for prime time. The kitchen did ok, but the rest of the staff seemed like they were on their first day of employment. We proceeded to have a good time anyway.
Our discussion focussed a lot on politics and the book, which was a journalist's account of the failure of the right to "swing" the Supreme Court through presidential appointment after appointment in the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush era. Relying mostly on behind the scenes anecdotes, press accounts, and memoirs, the book blames Justices Souter and O'Connor for lacking clear "judicial philosophies" and thus derailing the hopes of conservative presidents and their advisors. The book was an easy, entertaining read, but some of us would have liked a more systematic analysis.
The next book is Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential. Other titles considered were Orhan Pamuk, Snow, and Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk. A couple of people had already read Bourdain, so it was suggested that an alternative would be Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die.
The next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 25. Paul is on deck to suggest the following book.
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