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(3.28.05 issue) Scalia, Scalia, I once met a judge named Scalia...

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Catching up with Editor and Punisher, I see they did a funny potty-mouthed (such an enduringly weird expression) "translation" of Amy Davidson's questions for Margaret Talbot from an online-only interview about her recent Antonin Scalia profile.


Davidson’s line of questioning is essentially a series of permutations of the aforementioned big question:

Davidson: Why is he such a polarizing figure?
Translation: Why do so many people think Scalia is such an asshole?

Davidson: Is it even clear that he believes in the separation of church and state?
Translation: Is it possible that’s he just a stupid shithead?
...
To her credit, Talbot maintains her equanimity, offering fair responses to rather tendentious questions...

And lots more along those lines, with commentary. If you suspect that I have some kind of aversion to cursing because I haven't given you the more sailorish sections of the above post, not so. If you could get the inside of my head as an iTunes radio station, you'd hear some swearing you wouldn't soon forget. Luckily for all of us, you can't.

For fun, here's another Editor and Punisher report on New Yorker history, Louis Menand on Eustace Tilley, and what E&P will do "if anyone ever describes us as 'cultivated observers of life’s small beauties.' " Read "Of Monocle-Shattering Importance"—you know you want to.

Q. & A.: The Scalia Court [New Yorker, online only]
Supreme Asshole [Editor and Punisher]

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