Clarence Thomas Trying to Lose a Few Pounds Before Scalia Funeral
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ALEXANDRIA, VA: Hoping to head off awkward small talk with concerned Republican luminaries at Saturday’s funeral of long-time colleague Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas passed up dessert Wednesday, vowing to “hit the gym” at least twice before the weekend. “Oh, man, if I don’t lose five pounds right now,” Thomas grimaced, “Mitch McConnell will keep bringing up Jeb’s paleo diet, and Cruz will slip me the email of that personal trainer who only works with members of the Federalist Society.” The 67-year-old Justice asked his wife Virginia for the third time this week, “Are you sure it’s not socially acceptable to wear my black robes to a funeral?”
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Just to be clear: this is neither true nor from The Onion.
Clarence Thomas doesn’t look particularly overweight, although it’s hard to tell in judicial robes. Weight loss certainly would hurt very few men who are 67. Black men generally have more problems with hypertension, so here’s hoping that Justice Thomas takes good care of himself.
The tradition of burying the law clerks with the deceased justice will certainly be a wake up call for all of the justices. Their staff will suddenly be motivated to keep their boss healthy.
How about the rumor that Obama is going to nominate Professor Sherman Klump to the SCOTUS?
You should try to get a job with them, your age and political beliefs notwithstanding.
As I’ve said, the best outcome for Republicans (though not for the country) would be if Obama rammed a black candidate through to take Scalia’s seat. Then the R’s could confidently appoint a righty white man to Thomas’s seat, both because Thomas would have endorsed him and because the black quota has been filled.
They have a basketball court in the SC building, yet we’ve never heard of Thomas participating. When blacks say we need a black man on the Court, I guess this is what they mean.
i think I got that from his biography.
Thomas should consider wearing a dashiki to Scalia’s funeral. (I assume it would have to be black.) This would serve two purposes. First, it would cover the “problem” he shared with his late friend Antonin Scalia. Second, it would be a symbolic gesture that might heal the rift with his former community of African Americans by showing he identifies with their traditions. In his early rabble rousing days in D.C. before he settled down to his sedate life of smoking crack, the late Marion Barry used to wear a dashiki.
I do think the Prime Minister of Japan should wear a kimono when he travels abroad, however.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I thought that they were immolated on the funeral pyre, constructed of the discarded drafts of opinions.
Counting Scalia, there are three Jews and six Catholics on the court.
If we need a court that “looks like America”, we need a Protestant.
Having said that, if you're talking Roy Moore I'm all ears.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Pluto’s becoming a planet again and Randy Newman has one less thing to be pissed off about.
For whatever reason, white Protestants willingly faded off the stage of power following WWII and the civil rights episodes of (often anti-Christian) white misbehavior. Mencius Moldbug used to argue that the old WASP religion became non-theistic modern liberalism, but actual Protestant believers remain. Why they remain silent qua white Protestants remains unclear–maybe it’s the ultimate turning of the other cheek.
NO, Thomas talked about playing on that court in his younger days. He twisted a knee or ankle playing and wound up having surgery. Then he stopped playing bball and got fat.
i think I got that from his biography.
Hey fan boy ! I saw “Hail Caesar ” today . Have you done a review yet ? The Cinematography was flawless , the story line was good , the actors each one excellent in their roles ( I think they may actually be mocking George Clooney and his smug progressive BS ) I quite enjoyed it although I enjoyed “Burn After Reading” too . My companion didn’t like it at all , I had to smack her about half way through to stop the dramatic sighs and restless shifting in her seat . To be honest that made it even more enjoyable . Anyway just interested in what you might think .
oookay. Rather makes it sound as though Clarence Thomas is shedding the man molecule, I mean testosterone. Maybe Steve can write about testosterone one more time for him. But I recall an Onion article about the fella who kept estimating the testosterone of iconic celebrities, the subtext being what Scientists choose to study is kinda funny sometimes, especially when they aren’t real scientists. But I’ve met Justice Thomas and I’m pretty sure he’s fat and happy. I remember that old photo of when Margaret Thatcher got to meet Steve. She looked fond of his beard.
meanwhile I think the convention will be interesting indeed.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-poll-supreme-court/index.html
Why would a protestant entail having to be an old line founding stock descendant? Evangelicals make up about 25% of the population.
sup d-nut, not to step on the toes of this boy your a fan of, whoever the little guy is, but I think you said it all. the ones who beat their women love the cohens dark touch. the rest of us, well we can wait til redbox spits em out sliced nice and thin for like a ‘dolla dolla bill yall.’
I think Youtube has more and better entertainment ....
meanwhile I think the convention will be interesting indeed.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-poll-supreme-court/index.htmlReplies: @Broski
Maybe Steve and Thomas have similar exercise habits, and thus he can channel Thomas’s insecurities?
I didn’t say it did. They nonetheless never stand up for themselves as white Protestants contra, say, most other racioethnic groups in the country.
On the weekends, C-Span has been showing a series of interviews that Julian Bond conducted with African-American leaders. I watched his interview with Clarence Thomas, and it was very interesting.
Bond’s interview with Armstrong Williams also was very interesting.
Thomas and Williams are intellectually impressive.
Oh Pat , do you really think that I would beat a woman ? Well I suppose you might given some of my comments but I wouldn’t or at least I don’t any more . And while I do enjoy black comedy more than any other type I didn’t think “Hail Caesar” was a dark movie at all . I thought it kind of affirmed all the old fashioned positive values that once made America great . Maybe we just see what we want to . And besides God knows I check IMDB every other day , what is there in the theaters these days worth going to see ? “Sicario” from 2 months ago (also with Josh Brolin ) we’re in a long dry spell and take what we can get . Even with Amazon Prime and Netflix I’m lucky to find three movies in a month I want to watch .
I think Youtube has more and better entertainment ….
Speaking of the Onion, there was a strangely unfunny article in it this week:
http://www.theonion.com/article/female-presidential-candidate-who-was-united-state-52367
The tone seemed a bit off, as if a humorless writer was trying to imitate the Onion’s style.
Turns out that Clinton-supporter, and rabid Israel-Firster, Haim Saban, has just bought a 40% share in the Onion.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-ha-hillary-clintons-top-financial-supporter-now-controls-the-onion/
If we need a court that "looks like America", we need a Protestant.Replies: @Alec Leamas
Of course. I was just saying the other day we could use another John Paul Stevens, David Hackett Suter, and Earl Warren on the Court. I can’t name a single one Protestant Republican appointee in recent memory who didn’t go bamboo when he made it to the District.
Having said that, if you’re talking Roy Moore I’m all ears.
Not that his Catholic friend William J Brennan was any better. But Brennan led to a spate of Catholic appointments, almost half of which were almost good. Blackmun may have been the death knell for that grab bag of sects lumped together as "Protestant".
Now this article does read like the Onion.
My understanding is that, post-Reinhold Niebuhr, the protestants rejected the old intellectual rigor and turned all mushy and charismatic. Whatever you think of them, Catholics have a strong rationalistic tradition. The medieval subjects of rhetoric and logic and Latin are a damned good pre-college education for a future jurist.
The Jews…well same thing really. All that arguing over the Talmud left a mark.
Unlike The Onion, Randy Newman has never been funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfAZUYCZSLQ
Bond's interview with Armstrong Williams also was very interesting.
Thomas and Williams are intellectually impressive.Replies: @stillCARealist
I wonder if this Julian Bond person pretends to be black somehow. He’s not pretty, but he looks like a white man with a good tan.
Have you been paying attention lately? The black quota will never be filled until the federal bench is a colored-only safe space.
Having said that, if you're talking Roy Moore I'm all ears.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Don’t forget Harry Blackmun! That august Methodist jurist is responsible for the snuffing out of more than 30 million potential Protestant lives.
Not that his Catholic friend William J Brennan was any better. But Brennan led to a spate of Catholic appointments, almost half of which were almost good. Blackmun may have been the death knell for that grab bag of sects lumped together as “Protestant”.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/17/decorate-marine-veteran-attacked-teens-mcdonalds/80492568/
My ex-wife was Episcopalian, and our wedding was officiated by her minister in her church. Twelve years of Catholic school left me pretty agnostic and I didn’t have a Catholic priest co-officiate, much to my mom’s chagrin.
As a Catholic friend said afterward, the ceremony was the same as a Catholic one, minus the discipline and game uniforms.
The upside is that if I choose to get married again, I can do it in the Catholic church. As far as they’re concerned, I was never married!
Wearing a dashiki is not one of the traditions of African-Americans, however. Saying Blacks were dashikis, is like saying they celebrate Kwanzaa. They celebrate Christmas, like the rest of us.
I do think the Prime Minister of Japan should wear a kimono when he travels abroad, however.
Justice Thomas is the greatest black man in America today — and probably the greatest black American in the last 50 years.
What makes him great is the fact that, despite the fact that he was indeed an affirmative action pick for the “colored” seat on the Supreme Court, he did actually turn out to be a serious intellectual and a brilliant student of the Founders’ Constitution. Thomas is arguably more conservative, and more faithfully wedded to the Constitution than Scalia was. Not by much, mind you, but the case could be made.
Thomas is the embodiment of what pro-civil rights Republicans from Reconstruction through Earl Warren believed that blacks could become — completely assimilated into white society based on the apprehension of objective principles — namely, in Thomas’s case, the law.
Unfortunately, the exception does not disprove the rule. Thomas is also the most hated man in black America today, precisely because he is so assimilated. Racial identification on a visceral level is a much more powerful force than being part of an intellectual school of thought such as constitutional originalism. I wish that all blacks — no, even thirty percent of blacks — could assimilate the way Thomas has, but the older I get the more I realize the folly of it. Thomas is a true one-percenter, and the other 99% of the blacks, Hispanics, Jews, females, gays, and what-have-you who get appointed to the Court will vote their instincts, not their intellects.
I do think the Prime Minister of Japan should wear a kimono when he travels abroad, however.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
You think Japan should be governed by transvestites?
I sincerely hope that President Trump, when entertaining Gulf potentates, says, "I'll put the rag on Melania when I visit your joint, but if you want to talk to me here, put on a suit!"
Of course!
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(or perhaps they could wear the male version of those silk robes, which are apparently not called "kimonos")
I sickens me when I see American politicians obsequiously throwing the rag on their heads when visiting Muslim countries.
I sincerely hope that President Trump, when entertaining Gulf potentates, says, “I’ll put the rag on Melania when I visit your joint, but if you want to talk to me here, put on a suit!”
“You think Japan should be governed by transvestites?”
Of course!
~
(or perhaps they could wear the male version of those silk robes, which are apparently not called “kimonos”)
Was it Thomas’s white wife that tipped the balance for you?