Stolen from Maud's blog, as usual.

Sandra Day O'Connor takes on right-wing assaults on the judiciary, including the following warning: "We must be ever vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."

Folks, that's Sandra Day O'Connor warning about the slippery slope to dictatorship in the U.S., not Mark Crispin Miller. Gives me the shivers.