US Supreme Court Justice Breyer Picks J.L. Austin Book as One of Five That Has Influenced Him

Details here.

(Thanks to Matt Lister for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  No posting is too trivial for some anonymous sanctimonious idiot to let it pass.  Into my inbox appears the following e-mail from "Dasein Brown":  "Breyer also cited Camus, a philosopher, but of course you wouldn't mention that on your blog.  Probably because he wasn't a 'real' philosopher.  Your petty biases are quite off-putting."  "Petty biases" are one thing, naked stupidity another.  Justice Breyer cited a novel by Camus, and not even one of the more philosophically rich ones.   Sartre didn't think Camus was much of a philosopher, as I recall, and I'm not aware of any philosophers who do, though he's a fabulous and deep writer to be sure. 

ANOTHER:  My pseudonymous correspondent writes:  "Perhaps you should have added to your 'Fourth of July opinion poll' a category akin to 'emailing snide comments to Brian Leiter' because that's exactly what I did yesterday (though I should point out that, like many Leiter readers, I was also DRINKING ALL DAY).  Tipsy + bad mood= snotty, inane comment to Mr. Leiter.  My apologies.  In retrospect, I hated The Plague [the Camus novel Breyer mentioned].  I really can't excuse my comments, but I hope that you will forgive me."   My thanks for the gracious mea culpa.