The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    When it's time for Gramps to hang up the keys....

    By jollyroger on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:00pm |

    Oh, schadenfreude, how sweet it is!

    After recovering from the head rush and the sweet, sweet savor of Scalia skunked, may we not wonder

    1. Why is he too cheap to have a driver, like all important people?

    2. Was he tailgating, or fiddling with the radio?

    3. Don't the DC cops know who he is?--Or, per contra, do they know and wish him ill like all right-thinking members of the working class?

    Anyway you slice it, it's a great story.

    For extra credit:

    Why do the Brits call a fender-bender a "shunt"?

    Comments

    Just because you're a judge don't mean you can drive gud. Or do anything else for that matter.

    Perople who can, do. People who can't, judge.


    by cmaukonen on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:26pm

    drive gud

     

    Con brio  Maybe he was carried away by Tosca (He loves to pretend he's Scarpio)


    by jollyroger on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:35pm

    They call 'em shunts because "prang" led to too many double entendres.

    And they hate the French.


    by quinn esq on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 12:52am

    they hate the French.

    1763 and all that...no wait, the French (and Indians) lost that one..."Oh, Canada!"


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:12am

    In passing, and having nothing to do with Scalia but germane to Manitoba (I think Winnipeg is in Manitoba, or is it the other way round?...never mind.) the plan was for Quebec to secede, and then we were supposed to get Saskatchawan, Manitoba, that island whatsits name-o yeah, Vancouver.  Alberta too.  All the gas, in other words.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:17am

    Also o/t, (but how many chances do we get to communicate with honest to god canadians?) how come the curling chicks replicate the usual rule that we see in tennis player chicks and gymnastics chicks--do they cull the ugly ones at Junior High? cuz even with no noticable physical effort, they're all cuteasabutton.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:20am

    Plus instead of just grunting like the tennis babes do, they shout things like "Hurry! Hurry HARD!" You think they don't know what draws in male viewers?


    by acanuck on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 2:21am

    If you guys got Alberta, it'd be time to leave the continent. Seriously.

    They're incredibly right-wing, vote in blocs, and so, both Houses and the Presidency would move strongly GOP.

    Plus, oil/gas gets cheaper... but its filthy dirty oil, so you'd have to make sure no environmental controls or CO2 rules, eh? Oh yeah, and it'd be a hugely profitable home for tens of billions of the dirtiest capital and nastiest firms imaginable. 

    As it is, you get most of that, but without the political push to the right, and the additional anti-environmental and political lobbying pressure.

    Instead, we get their hatchet man - our Prime Minister is from there - who is surrounded by American advisors, as snide & nasty as Palin, and as anti-environmental as they come. 

    On second thought, why not take Alberta? It's real purty!

    And also, curling chicks rock. Esp. Jennifer Jones, frmr world champ, from Winnipeg. 


    by quinn esq on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 2:03am

    right-wing, vote in blocs,

    Yeah, that's always the rub isn't it.  Calhoun didn't want 10 million "brown voters" so we let the bottom half of Mexico slip away, and Israel is choking on the prospect of millions of Arab voters.

    I guess it's just as well the war of 1812 went the way it did...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:02am

     Jennifer Jones

    She certainly does, eh.  (extra points for spectacularly inapposite use of the "eh")


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:21am

    It would have been funnier if they had taken the bastard downtown to the station and had the car towed. hahhaha


    by Richard Day on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 11:31am

    Yeah, jr really disappointed me with this one. I was hoping for something a little more salacious, like maybe him being drunk and with a transexual hooker*.

    *not that there's anything wrong with that, jr. I'm not judging your lifestyle. ;)


    by Verified Atheist on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 12:02pm

    a transexual hooker*

    I wanna go on record as demanding the operation have been done, and by a damn good surgeon at that...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:29pm

    had the car towed. hahhaha

    Halfway there..car was towed but they drove Nino to court.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 1:30pm