Tony’s finger

I noted a bit ago John's link to the Scalia bird-flipping in church story. This is the full text of the report, from John's original UPI source: Justice Scalia flips the finger in church BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics. A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state. "You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian." The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper. "Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said. He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers' Guild luncheon. ---- "Don't publish that," like, y'know, just fuck the First Amendment (because, well, judicial activism is A-Okay if you're a Republican). And then what's this "special mass for lawyers and politicians" all about?