RIP Justice Scalia

kenner

Found dead in his resort room this morning. One of the most entertaining and intelligent SCOTUS justices ever.

FauxAmish

kenner

Concur.

RIP Antonin Scalia and may you be Blessed by His guiding hand.

Theophilus

Dissent.

Hoss7504

Theophilus

How fitting.

Oldprof

Antonin Scalia ... the Supreme Court Justice who believed that money is the same thing as the right to free speech.

kenner

Oldprof Antonin Scalia ... the Supreme Court Justice who believed that money is the same thing as the right to free speech.

Oversimplification ad absurdum. I award you the Peirs Morgan award for obfuscation.

Also, I believe that using the occasion of a man's death to vilify him is, yes, crass and immature.

jrock

Looks like we may need a P&R tag soon. 🙂

CallMeAl

jrock Looks like we may need a P&R tag soon.

Yep, and a swap shop too!

kenner

jrock Looks like we may need a P&R tag soon.

Don't blame me. I'm not going to ask anyone to explain their crass, immature responses.

Oldprof

kenner jrock Looks like we may need a P&R tag soon.
Don't blame me. I'm not going to ask anyone to explain their crass, immature responses.

You wrote that Justice Scalia was "entertaining and intelligent." I described a position that he held and defended quite openly, publicly, and with a good deal of enjoyment. Neither of our responses is "crass" and "immature" in my opinion.

Release

The position he had held in court at various time, often were not his own opinion.
Like it or not !
We lost someone important, if we had not realized the fact that the right decision often times were not the popular one.

Theophilus

More often than not, Scalia used his keen intellect and great command of language to rationalize a predetermined outcome although that always seem to align with his opinions. When confronted in debate by one of the few as skilled as himself, he reverted the profoundly reasoned response "get over it!"

He is one of the few justices or judges in history to socialize with a party in an active case over which he was presiding. But perhaps my observations go too far toward crassness so I will close by paraphrasing Betty Davis, " my mother told me to only speak good of the dead, he's dead good"

Typhoon

I thought it was Jack Scalia...

swinnea

Didn't take long!

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Release

swinnea

Most likely not, he has health issue and he is 79.
The family must known the probable cause of death since they requested no autopsy.

Oldprof

kenner Oldprof Antonin Scalia ... the Supreme Court Justice who believed that money is the same thing as the right to free speech.
Oversimplification ad absurdum. I award you the Peirs Morgan award for obfuscation.

Also, I believe that using the occasion of a man's death to vilify him is, yes, crass and immature.

Ouch!

swinnea

Release Most likely not, he has health issue and he is 79.
The family must known the probable cause of death since they requested no autopsy.

Just keeping track of the tin-foil hats. Which seem to be multiplying.

Release

swinnea

Always.
Sometimes it is fun to watch.

Of topic here, having difficulty log onto golfbuzz from work. Shown the browser but nothing else loaded.

swinnea

Release Of topic here, having difficulty log onto golfbuzz from work. Shown the browser but nothing else loaded.

Nothing clicks with me immediately about what's going on there.

Release

I had no idea that there was a pillow over Scalia's head when he was found dead.
-from a non-confirmed source-