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Why Justice Souter is Way Cooler than Justice Scalia

He's giving up one of the most powerful jobs in the world to hang out in New Hampshire to climb mountains and read books and stuff.  Seriously.  How cool is that? People have a man crush on Scalia.  I've never understood it.  Scalia's ego needs constant food and water.  I must speak at a conference.  I must make quips.  I must get the admiration of 22 year old law students.  Oh, and did you know I like opera?  Yeah, I'm cultured, too!Seriously.  When I get to be 70 years old, or however old Scalia is.... To think I'll live to have people look up to me?  I'll be so pathetic and insecure that my ego will live and die based on what some snot-nosed kids (and adults) at the Federalist Society convention think of me.  Lame.I may not agree with much of what Justice Souter believes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).