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Can't post like Glenn Reynolds unless we turn comments off. Heh.

Kreiz, the problem I had in trying to write a post was that there really wasn't anything new for people who already know him and his work fairly well. Even the "gotcha" question on his letter to Harry Blackmun is old news. Now, I know not all our readers follow Scalia quite so closely, and so some of it might be new information, but sometimes it's difficult to frame a post which will be new information to readers but that seems old news to me. :) That said, I agree with you - it was very nice, and I thought he presented himself well (or rather, 60m permitted him to present himself well). And I loved that they included Ginsburg to serve as a sort of defense witness. There were things I'd liked to have seen covered; I thought his reply on the torture question missed the mark in terms of how the point was presented (I know what he's getting at, but I don't know whether it was conveyed to average viewers); and I think he does himself no favors in how he talks about Bush v. Gore (in that prickliness is not interpreted as the boredom with the question that I think motivates it, but rather, as defensiveness, which plays into his critics' hands); but overall, very nice. Nice job.

I didn't call Reynolds lazy. I called myself lazy.

On a serious note, he seems to be saying that either that all bloggers should write like him or, perhaps, that all people should think like him, or at least that their failure to do so is, itself, worthy of criticism.

I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. Seriously, when I say "I think too much," I don't mean that in a self-aggrandizing way. That's why I highlight the fact that for all my thinking, I don't come up with thoughts anyone would characterize as insightful. To put it another way: I'm the guy who thinks he can dig his way out of prison by banging his head against his bunk.