-=> EARL CROASMUN wrote to All <=-

 -> There's a picture of Scalia giving a vile Italian insult to a photographer.

 EC> Meanwhile, here in the real world, MSNBC covered the same thing:

 EC> "Scalia quoted from The Italians by Luigi Barzini: "The extended
 EC> fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin
 EC> means 'I couldnt care less. Its no business of mine. Count me out.'"

 EC> Scalia wrote that the reporter concluded it was offensive because he
 EC> initially explained his gesture by saying, Thats Sicilian. He blamed
 EC> the mistake on excessive exposure to the HBO crime family drama.

 EC> From watching too many episodes of the Sopranos, your staff seems to
 EC> have acquired the belief that any Sicilian gesture is obscene
 EC> especially when made by an Italian jurist. (I am, by the way, an
 EC> American jurist.) Scalia wrote."

 EC> That is posted for the benefit of anyone who is not so blinded by
 EC> partisan hatred that they will believe any sort of tripe that fits
 EC> their biases.  In other words, some here but not everyone.

The picture looked like it could have been Scalia making "The Sign of
the Fig"
which is Guinea for "eff you". But, now I won't have to wait for
Ross Sauer's
reply to my previous question.   Bv)=

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