This near-obsession with Justice Ginsburg's age, health and plans has obscured the fact that the conservative justices are growing old at exactly the same rate.
But as for the obsession with vengeance and justice, Park's personal experiences can be compressed into one defining, human moment.
Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the ratings could provide no more damning indictment of the government's obsession with the privatisation of justice: "Last autumn, the justice secretary hailed G4S Oakwood as an example of what the private sector could achieve in prisons.
(Appelfeld speaks eloquently of Kafka's handwriting in Hebrew, with its "love for the isolated letter," while the Czech novelist Ivan Klima reveals his "obsession with the problem of justice, with the feelings of people who have been condemned and cast out, the lonely and the helpless").
Ledger's brilliant performance embodies the perfect counterpoint to the psychology of Bruce Wayne, where trauma drives one man to an obsession with chaos and the other with justice, and whether Batman's lawlessness and costume actually makes Gotham safer or drives criminals to be crazier.
The widespread obsession with incarceration corrodes confidence in justice.
The obsession with consensus and a pledge of justice from the president brought on resignation, illustrated by a moment of tragicomedy in the Leonarda case.
The online hysteria over this show is just another instance of our modern obsession with true crime stories and miscarriages of justice.
But if these examples show "an obsession with rhetorical precision" that places him in the "upper tier" of American justices, then our standards are depressingly low.
He said Grayling's "obsession with throwing red meat to Tory backbenchers and appearing on the front page of the Mail on Sunday" would undermine British justice.
