THE THING WITH FEATHERS: Relentless optimists who hope Bush will not nominate a Supreme Court justice like the one he's promised to the theocrats have offered some other names he might pick. Michael Bérubé suggests a bipartisan surprise, and Fried Green al-Quedas, knowing he'd really like to resurrect Torquemada, proposes a more modern version of invariant correctness. On the more pessimistic side, South Knox Bubba has the scary scoop from the tabloids.