Judge John Roberts - "Straight Judges Don't Wear Plaid"

[Jersey Devil]

Billmon is an absolute hoot today!



"What will be hilarious, of course, will be watching Right Blogostan try to figure out how to deal with this new development. The same people who were outraged -- outraged! -- by the stupid jokes about Roberts's teenage fashion sense, now will have to figure out what they think about him legally consorting with known gay rights activists.

Being gay can be overlooked or rationalized, ala Jeff Gannon. Discrimination, after all, is for the little people. But defending gays -- fondling the equal protection clause, stroking the constitutional "penumbra," making mad, passionate love to the privacy doctrine -- these are sins that simply cannot be forgiven, not if the phrase social conservative is to have any meaning that can't be found next to "hypocrite" in a thesaurus.

But what would that say about the man who nominated Roberts? When conservatives snickered about the "stealth candidate," and congratulated Bush for having so cleverly "threaded the needle," this isn't exactly what they meant. Has their unappreciated genius actually blundered? Or, God forbid, could he be . . .

-snip-

I know! Maybe Roberts was seduced. You know how it goes: It's the oldest story in the book. The wife is out of town and the kids are off at camp. You've always wanted to experiment with the alternative legal lifestyle, and this time you just can't resist. So you pull on the tight plaid pants, put on just a trace of the missus's mascara, and wander down to that law library you've heard about -- the one where all the liberals go. And that's how it happens. You read a little William O. Douglas, knock back a few 9th Circuit opinions, and the next thing you know, you're going at it pro bono with some hot young hunk from the ACLU. And suddenly you realize what you've been missing all your life."

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[despairing optimist]

1. Is that a pro bono in his jockstrap or is he just happy to meat people?