Late last week, I offered a few possibilities, none definitive, for the family dynamic among the Antonin Scalia clan and its nine children. Is his wife saintly, beleaguered, adoring, contemptuous? And, amazingly enough, we all got an answer the next day, right here: “My wife calls me Mr. Clueless.” Whether this precedent should be interpreted …
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You know, I try to be entertaining when I write these posts, and then my morning paper comes along and, in its deadpan way, is funnier than I could ever be. From a Times story about a sex-ed class that provoked protests: As a result, some of Ms. Kramer’s 30 students went home with neatly …
If you haven’t heard about this yet today, you certainly are about to. On Tuesday night, Rand Paul, son of the Texas libertarian congressman (and presidential also-ran) Ron Paul, won the Republican primary in Kentucky’s Senate race. And on Wednesday night, he went on The Rachel Maddow Show and more or less called for the …
How did I miss this fact before? Antonin Scalia, the core of the fundamentalist—er, sorry, originalist—wing of the Supreme Court, has nine children. Nine. As Michael Kinsley notes in today’s semi-satirical essay: Is this normal? Or should I say “normal,” as some people choose to define it? Can he represent the views of ordinary Americans …
