They really shouldn't talk to the press while still on the bench. Nothing good comes of it.
The best line, which everyone else on the internet has already pounced on, is the one about how the meaning of words doesn't change.
2: Hadn't seen that. A fair counterexample. I suppose one could also make an exception for Posner on the ground that he wouldn't say anything to a reporter that he wouldn't put in an opinion (because there isn't anything he wouldn't put in an opinion).
"He was on the losing side of everything, an old fogey, the old view."
Damn the age, I will decide for antiquity!
My favorite bit from that interview is how he accuses the interviewer of being out of touch because she thinks he's odd for being so obsessed with Satan, and YET: Ladies who cuss? Oh my!
Senior did a really good job with that interview, I think.
Not to get all Slate-adjacent, but I wouldn't particularly like it if Scalia were all "I love Buzzfeed and Twitter and Aziz Ansari and food trucks and The Hunger Games! Totes cute! SO looking forward to the new Star Wars movies! #jjabrams #stillloveLost #sorrynotsorry #yolo", either.
9: You can say you don't get that stuff and don't really use it without sounding like a frightened caveman.
Excluded middles for $200, Alex.
I feel that Scalia is a guy who has been eaten by his schtick. The alternate reasonable possibility is that he was just always that way. Anyhow I'm glad that we're now past the point where decent people who didn't read many cases for some reason bought that he was "evil but right" or even more ridiculously "evil but honest."
No! We thought he was evil, intelligent and dishonest! Now it turns out he's evil, dumb and honest! How is that better!
I feel that Scalia is a guy who has been eaten by his schtick.
Scalia was always that way, but this serves as a neat summary of what has happened to the Republican Party.
I want to take part of that back. Nothing could make me happier than the revelation of Justice Scalia, Belieber.
The part of that interview that I found most interesting (because I am a law geek) is the part where AS repudiates his previous position that he would interpret the Eighth Amendment to prohibit flogging. That has always been a gaping hole in the logic of his originalist argument -- and yet at the same time seems like an absolutely necessary concession if he's not going to lose the majority of his readers right there. It seems of a piece with the bit chris y quotes where AS claims he doesn't care about his position ultimately prevailing anymore.
Has your personal attitude softened some? Toward what?
Homosexuality. I don't think I've softened. I don't know what you mean by softened.
Fruit as low hanging as ever there was.
Associate Justice Scalia does give good interview. (Even though he generally further cements his reputation as petulant bully.)
OT: they turned down the iPhone atlatl script. Alas. No prime-time BBC1 slot for unfogged just yet...
19: You should fund it through Kickstarter.
It was one in a list of medical drama plots with a social media influence. My favourite was the mass fainting epidemic spread via Twitter - so you'd have hundreds of patients with no epidemiological commonalities at all. The one about the girl whose avatar gets a record contract and then becomes a much bigger star than her actually got produced!
How could they refuse? The iPod atlatl is great!
I like the Twitter fainting one. Clever.
25: I know, right? All I can think is that it didn't fit their amazingly rigorous script guidelines. (Seriously, C*s**lty makes Kabuki look like drama class improv.) Maybe we can pitch it somewhere else.
24: isn't that a William Gibson plot or something?
28: William Gibson's was the one about the software-only singer that becomes a huge star (Idoru). This one was about an east London girl who gets a recording contract through her not-Second-Life-but-something-similar avatar.
I'm pretty sure Gibson has also used Langford basilisks.
28: I suspect you are thinking of Stephenson's Snowcrash.
24: Isn't that the premise of Hannah Montana? Not that I ever watched.
I forget if the The Namshub of Enki was the "virus" or the antidote to it.
I suspect I am not. And I actually knew that about Idoru, it's just that it seems an awful lot like something that someone would already have written about by the late 90s.
34: It does rather, but as far as I know they haven't.
33: the antidote. It induced linguistic differentiation to stop viruses spreading through a shared language (Sumerian) which also affected the mind on a deep level.
30: fainting epidemic not spread via Langford basilisks or anything too SF like that - just through users gossiping about people fainting. C*s**lty would definitely have turned down a story about a basilisk outbreak in Holby.