While taking in Matt Franck’s pearls of wisdom over at Bench Memos, I took his advice to skip over to TheCatholicThing, where our friend Hadley Arkes has another essay today on the upcoming Sotomayor confirmation hearings. There, the reader comes upon the following in Hadley’s tag-line:

Prof. Arkes notes, as Ronald Reagan once put it, that he celebrates this morning the “30th anniversary of my 39th birthday.”

Happy birthday, Hadley — and many, many more anniversaries!