vaffanculo to you, too, annie

I’m not sure why this was news – after all, he’s been doing this to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the middle class, the working poor, The New Deal, the American electorate, any plaintiff seeking to sue a corporation as well as anyone who seeks to criticize his “Strict Constructionist” point of view of the law.

Be that as it may, a photojournalist in Boston, Peter Smith, caught Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia coming out of a Boston Cathedral after mass last week.

According to The Boston Herald, Smith asked Scalia “how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship.”

Quoting the Herald:

“The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, ‘To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’” punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said.The Italian phrase means ‘(expletive) you.’”

Then, to be perfectly clear, Scalia then said “That’s Sicillian,” before realizing what he’d done and to whom. He then said “You’re not going to print that, are you?”

Welcome to the world of Soprano Family Values.

More soon.