Randomness at the End of June

• It seems that most of the rest of the world is pretty satisfied with Obama's foreign policy. The comparison between 2008 and 2015 is striking.
• I have never agreed with Antonin Scalia's judicial philosophy, but it is sad to see a once-respected jurist turn into a caricature of himself. He is becoming more and more irrelevant.
• The Occupy movement has been dismissed as some sort of failure, but it is the single biggest reason that we are talking about income inequality today.
• Similarly, folks can talk about Eric Snowden in any way they want, but he is the reason we are starting to rein in the NSA.  We should let him come home. (Maybe he deserves a ticker tape parade.)
• I wish Obama had pursued some of his other proposed policies with as much ardor and passion as he did for the TPP.