SPEAKING OF A SUPREME COURT THAT LOOKS LIKE AMERICA, Dahlia Lithwick offers this:

Anybody who believes the current Supreme Court looks like America needs to take a few more trips on a Greyhound bus. All the judges are white and/or old; most are both.

Clarence Thomas is white? Who knew?

UPDATE: Reader Tim Hartley emails:

I’m guessing her original sentence said “All the judges are white or old; most are both.” That’s not only better writing (I thought only engineers used the “and/or” circumlocution) but also correct, depending on whether you require people to be eligible for AARP or Social Security before declaring them old (Justice Thomas turned 60 earlier this week).

If you agree that “and/or” really does mean “one or both”, the second clause is redundant, but that doesn’t make the first any less correct.

Clarence Thomas isn’t “old” by any reasonable definition. He could probably kick my ass, and Barack Obama’s, simultaneously. And I’m just one year older than Barack Obama, who is very, very young and dynamic, according to the press . . . .

Meanwhile, Steve Hartley emails: “Anyone who believes that those riding a Greyhound Bus constitute an accurate representation of America’s demographics is simply an idiot.”

And Ken Wheaton emails, “I don’t know… last time I took a greyhound there were lots of old people on it.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Kyle Kveton writes:

Two questions:
1. In Dalia Lithwick’s world, is there only a 13 year difference between young (Sen. Obama is almost 47) and old (60 year old Justice Thomas)?

2. Is the Greyhound bus of which she speaks the same one under which all of Sen. O’s friends, pastors and advisors are thrown?

PS– Please remind Ms. Lithwick we refer to the members of the Supreme Court as Justices, not judges (damn layers of fact checkers must have been out at an Obama rally when her piece went to press).

That would explain it.