# tomndebb, Scalia is an orginialist. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581 "2011-01-06T04:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/41 "2011-01-07T05:28:56Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Care to deal with the substance of his post? Why? I responded to his OP in the way that he responded to my closing of his thread: I reponded to the point that I found interesting. He ignored two of the three points I made when closing his thread to nitpick a single arguable definition. I am ignoring his whining to focus on the one point that I felt was worth addressing. > [@Pierrot\_Le\_Fou](#): > > I see you have no honor. I have found, over the years, that people who make a big deal about “honor” in the second person are nearly always really describing hubris in the first person. A person who chooses to refrain from an unethical act may legitimately describe his or her actions as arising from a sense of honor. In nearly all cases, a person who describes another’s behavior as lacking honor simply means that his or her feelings are hurt. You chose to initiate a Pit thread over one comment I made based on the actual words of Justice Scalia (and those of Bricker) over several years while completely ignoring the other points I made. Tough. I gave you the opportunity to actually address what I had said and you chose, instead, to run to the BBQ Pit and whine. \* ::: shrug ::: \* ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/42 "2011-01-07T05:37:44Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I think it’s time to nuke France. Please do, it would improve my chances of taking over the country. I want to see zombie hordes swarming the Champs Elysees (well, what a change would that be…). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/43 "2011-01-07T05:39:53Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I’m Tiger Woods. I thought he was caublasian, not hibernblasian? ---
**Author:** ![Pierrot\_Le\_Fou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@Pierrot\_Le\_Fou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pierrot_Le_Fou)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/44 "2011-01-07T06:05:59Z")
[QUOTE=dumbass] Why? I responded to his OP in the way that he responded to my closing of his thread: I reponded to the point that I found interesting. He ignored two of the three points I made when closing his thread to nitpick a single arguable definition. I am ignoring his whining to focus on the one point that I felt was worth addressing. [/quote] Here are your other two “points”: > [@dumbass](#): > > Second: You have two separate questions that will possibly get quite differing answers. Fair enough, but I note that there are other threads that have multiple questions which could get differing answers . > [@dumbass](#): > > Third: I am really not happy with posters calling other posters out. Normally I allow it, but when it is based on errors of perception, I am more likely to shut down the thread. Notice how the entire basis of the validity of this “point” is based on what you have incorrectly identified as my error of perception. The first “point” was the essential “point.” Take away the incorrectly identified error of perception, and your house-of-cards reasoning for closing the thread crumbles (like a house of cards). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/45 "2011-01-07T07:00:17Z")
I return to my position in my first post to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/46 "2011-01-07T07:59:52Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I return to my position in my first post to this thread. Well, since you are usually wrong when you moderate and usually right when you just post, could this be a rare instance when/where those sets intersect? And since Scalia is a legal hack and full of shit (see Bush v. Gore and Citizens United) does it matter? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/47 "2011-01-07T09:39:53Z")
Scalia is an organist? Does he have a little dancing monkey too?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/48 "2011-01-07T11:53:06Z")
I thought changing the name of the poster in quotes was against the rules, even in the pit. I seem to remember that rule coming about when people were changing the name of **Liberal** in quotes to his old name ( **Libertarian** ) (and also calling him that, long after his name was **Liberal** ). Guess I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/49 "2011-01-07T12:00:31Z")
Missed the edit window: [Nevermind, my mistake.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353003) ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/50 "2011-01-07T12:49:05Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Scalia is an organist? Does he have a little dancing monkey too?!?! No, no, no, he is an orgiest. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/51 "2011-01-07T13:13:49Z")
> [@cards](#): > > No, no, no, he is an orgiest. My God! My eyes! My eyes! Thanks for that image. You can just rock me to sleep tonight, you bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/52 "2011-01-07T13:58:48Z")
> [@cards](#): > > No, no, no, he is an orgiest. Scalia is Silvio Berlusconi? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/53 "2011-01-07T14:03:53Z")
> [@cards](#): > > No, no, no, he is an orgiest. You have misspelled onanist. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/54 "2011-01-07T14:09:03Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > My God! My eyes! My eyes! > > Thanks for that image. You can just rock me to sleep tonight, you bastard. I guess you aren’t ready for the Supreme Court Swimsuit Calendar! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/55 "2011-01-07T14:43:00Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > I guess you aren’t ready for the Supreme Court Swimsuit Calendar! Not to mention the Supreme Court Gone Wild videos. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg getting those Mardi Gras beads… Yikes!) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/56 "2011-01-07T20:34:08Z")
I am Keyser Söze ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/57 "2011-01-07T20:41:14Z")
> [@Pierrot\_Le\_Fou](#): > > I see you have no honor. “What is honor? A word. Honor is a mere 'scutcheon…” –Sir John Falstaff ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/58 "2011-01-07T21:29:10Z")
My girlfriend is Hoffa then yours. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/59 "2011-01-08T00:29:49Z")
> [@cards](#): > > No, no, no, he is an orgiest. I thought that was Clarence Thomas? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-scalia-is-an-orginialist/566581/60 "2011-01-08T03:23:26Z")
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