A Judge, a Priest and a Rabbi Walk Into A Bar . . .

Justice Rehnquist is now playing to the crowd. (Washington Post, reg. required):

Addressing the annual convention of the Federalist Society here last week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delighted the crowd of distinguished legal eagles -- the audience of 1,000 included several judges -- by again talking about orgies as a way to "eliminate social tensions." To much laughter, we're told, he described his talk as an encore of a notorious speech he gave at Harvard in September, when the press mistakenly reported that he had endorsed orgies.



"My wife hasn't heard this talk," he noted Friday evening at the Mayflower Hotel, our sources tell us. ( Maureen Scalia was among those listening.) He used the famous line "I accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies, homosexual or not, eliminate social tensions, and ought to be encouraged," according to one note-taker. Responding to hearty laughter, he ad-libbed: "Ah, the libertarian half of the Federalist Society."

Same old story - once you get into comedy, you just start playing for the laughs. Maybe he'll bring a rubber chicken to the next conference? No, wait, a rubber . . . .



Never mind. Won't go there.