THE PREJUDICE OF OUR BLINDINGLY-WHITE-AND-WASPY SUPREME COURT PRESS: “Do I detect anti-Italian prejudice? Alito is too visibly expressive. He’s like a movie character with an Italian name (Spicoli). The rule is your face should be a mask? WASP-style?”

Plus: “Want to bet that if emotions played across the visage of Sonia Sotomayor while Alito or Scalia were articulating some nugget of conservatism that media’s Epps and Milbanks would tell us that this — this! — was the empathy Obama said was essential to judging?”