You probably know that Judge David Sentelle, who just wrote the majority opinion upholding the suppression of the names of detained foreigners, is the guy who appointed Kenneth Starr to replace independent counsel Robert Fiske (after what he claims was an innocuous meeting with GOP senators Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth). Here's another tidbit about Sentelle that appears in James Carville's book on the Starr investigation, ...And the Horse He Rode In On:

...according to [the March 19, 1998, issue of] Rolling Stone magazine, not only did Sentelle refuse to resign his membership at some white-only private clubs during his confirmation hearing, he also penned the following words about country music for a 1981 book entitled Why the South Will Survive: "The main apeal of the music of the South is found among...the long-historied, little-loved descendants of the people who built half the civilized world -- the Anglo-Saxons."

Racism and whining -- what an appealing combination.