Same to you, Antonin

I've been waiting to post about this until a picture turned up, and now one has.



Scalia was, for some reason, questioned in the back of a church (or just outside the church, perhaps) about what he'd like to say to his critics, and he made a hand motion reported as being the obscene gesture signifying "fuck you." Scalia later denied that this was the hand gesture he made, saying he made some other "Sicilian" gesture which was merely meant to convey his derision, disdain, and indifference.

Now, however, the photographer came forward with the picture and a story that, prior to making the gesture, Scalia also said, "Vaffanculo," a term which is entirely unambiguous.

I never realized Scalia's hands were so big. That's creepy.

(via Atrios)