If you look up "irony" in any dictionary available today, you'll find a definition something like this:

3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

If you look it up in dictionaries of the future, there will be an addendum:

Press Release

For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.

Justice doesn't have to actually rhyme to be poetic.

(Via the Llama Butchers.)
(And a whole host of others. )

Posted by Russ at 07:09 PM, June 28, 2005 in News