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http://www.slate.com/id/2134055/entry/2134056/ Dahlia Lithwick is reporting on Sam Alito’s confirmation hearing. “There are, it seems, better and worse ways to game your Supreme Court confirmation hearings. … Sam Alito has chosen to simply bore his way through, and as a consequence, two days into the hearings, the Democrats on the judiciary committee have hardly laid a glove on him. … There are some tangible benefits to this approach: For one thing, Alito has thus far generated not one flash of heat. There has been no clash, no argument, no losing of his temper. He is like a very, very smart rock.” 16:31