(Originally posted at
http://myleftwing.com )
Just adding another meme here: Alito does remind me of Mussolini, actually, or at least of the people who would admire one. Our real Mussolini may be Il Dubya, as in Il Duce, of course.
"Mussolito"...I like the sound of that. Feel free to spread it around.
However contemptible Sylvester Stallone is now, the original "Rocky" was not a bad film, and the "Italian Stallion" motto on his robe was funny. Maybe Sly could be drafted for the Court instead of the Italian Scalian, Sammy Alito.
Submissive to power...Alito, whoops, Mussolito, is Bush's "suck". See James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", chp. 1:
"...Simon Moonan told him not to because the prefect was looking. The fellow turned to Simon Moonan and said:
-- We all know why you speak. You are McGlade's suck.
(More Mussuckolito below)
Suck was a queer word. The fellow called Simon Moonan that name because Simon Moonan used to tie the prefect's false sleeves behind his back and the prefect used to let on to be angry. But the sound was ugly. Once he had washed his hands in the lavatory of the Wicklow Hotel and his father pulled the stopper up by the chain after and the dirty water went down through the hole in the basin. And when it had all gone down slowly the hole in the basin had made a sound like that: suck. Only louder.
To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
And the air in the corridor chilled him too. It was queer and wettish. But soon the gas would be lit and in burning it made a light noise like a little song. Always the same: and when the fellows stopped talking in the playroom you could hear it. ..."
Maybe Mussolito just sucks.
--Of course, I love Italian Americans. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio.