Clay Waters of Timeswatch catches the New York Times being itself.

When liberals aren't taunting conservatives with death wishes, they will often, under a guise of concern, talk of how hopefully this brush with fate will give the conservative a more compassionate, less restrictive outlook on life (i.e., become a Democrat).

There's an undercurrent of that in Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse's "Supreme Court Memo," "Uncertainty Now in a Golden Youth's Trajectory," on Chief Justice John Roberts' seizure. The liberal, pro-abortion Greenhouse evidently hoped Roberts' brush with fallibility will soften the whiz-kid conservative's heart.

Could adversity temper a jurisprudence that critics of the chief justice have discerned as bloodless and unduly distant from the messy reality of the lives of ordinary people who fail to file their appeals on time?"

Apparently liberals have given up on making constitutional arguments that would appeal to five members of the current Supreme Court, and instead are literally hoping for change from within.