From a redoubtable e-mailer: “In watching all of the reactions from the conservative glitterati, I’ve yet to see anyone do an equivalent of a funky-chicken end-zone dance over the fact that we now have two new sterling conservative justices in their early fifties on the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts.

This, my friend, is wonderful news! If we were all in a bar, I’d buy you a top-shelf scotch, toast our president and Republican senate, and lead a chorus of a “Glory, Hallelujah!” in a very denominational, non-interfaith way.

“Come on, bro, let’s enjoy this!”