According to David Brooks, Sonia Sotomayor achieved great success in her life because when she was a child, her aunts and grandmother staged an intervention to get her to stop reading Archie, Richie Rich and Casper comic books.
And here I've been, encouraging my kids to read those comics. So much for having a kid on the Supreme Court.
UPDATE: Here's the quote from the original Washington Post article about Sotomayor's debilitating comic book habit:
"The females were expected to achieve more," said her younger brother, Juan Sotomayor. She loved comic books -- Archie, Casper, Richie Rich -- so much that, after her father died, her paternal grandmother and aunts once convened a family meeting with her mother. "They were concerned about the role of the comic books in my sister's life," recalled her brother, an allergist outside Syracuse, N.Y. "It was maybe corrupting her."
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