Supreme Court Justices once had the image of sober, serious, and restrained people. Whether or not that stereotype ever applied to all those who wore the robes, one would still not expect to be given the finger by Blackmun, Brandeis or even Rehnquist for that matter, but Scalia, as reported this morning by UPI, conjured up images of Mafioso Tony Soprano by making the traditional one finger obscene gesture to a Boston Herald reporter who asked him if he

Scalia had just attended a special Sunday Mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and had been the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers' Guild luncheon.
"That's Sicilian." Said the Judge, flipping the bird in full view of a photographer from the Boston Archdiocese publication. Perhaps it is, but it’s also disgusting, unpatriotic, undignified and typical of the thugs, bullies, thieves, contract killers and all the other made men of the Republican Mafia who have pushed their way into power in America.
We deserve him, we deserve Cheney and the legion of dishonest, malignant creeps who run America. We deserve them because either we voted for them, with our private, stupid and ignorant little ideas, or we allowed other people to do it for us because we didn’t vote, didn’t follow the news or didn’t care.
1 comment:
Maybe he was signaling "We're number 1!"
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