our amazing stories of what went on in western north carolina, what went on, something that even thomas wolfe could never have written about in asheville. i don't know if brian had there been invited back to asheville, but the stories are amazing. and actually derailed me for a long time when i read it. and it stayed with me today as i tried to asheville today at the mayhem in mayberry, these incredible misadventures, but to look at the underbelly of crime and punishment in appalachia in this great american express. and ultimately part of a great american experience of understand we truly are. i want to have a message first though. because every reading is sponsored and my reading tonight is not sponsored by peabody energy, it is not sponsored by clean coal. we try to do a debate today on in cr and he didn't want to face off with me anymore. my reading tonight is sponsored by the independent booksellers association because when we're doing the bailout putting all the billion dollar checks into the mail and there wondering about wall street, about the banks and wondering about this corporation

wolf. what kind of -- she's been in that business for 20 years. she's hesitant about taking public positions. >> is she qualified now to be a supreme court justice than clarence thomashad writings. you could go in there and say look, you may disagree with them, but there he was there to defend them. he expressed himself. he believed strongly, he studied the law and showed himself to be someone who believed that you go in a certain direction. and so there's a man that's been working the business of the jurorist. and here she, is what is it? the question i think is how did she get tenure in these good universities when she doesn't write? there's nothing there. she is a blank sheet. >> i don't know if she's a blank sheet. david, do you know her a lot better than i do. talk about that. >> i think the notion she's not qualified is proposterous on its face. this woman has lived a life in the law, working with brilliant minds at the court of appeals level, at the supreme court, now as solicitor general. she held her own against scalia. he had shelled her own against john roberts. she is going to be an intellectual force on the court. on the left side to be sure. and i am s