Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ridiculous

Let's not even address the insult to common intelligence that is Scalia's position that he not to recuse himself from Cheney's case (which the SCOTUS will be hearing shortly) on the basis that there is no conflict of interest as a result of Cheney wine-and-dining him. Let's just focus on the last sentence (if you can call it that) of Scalia's statement below. Delve with me, if you will, into Bizarro world.

"It did not involve a lawsuit against Dick Cheney as a private individual," Scalia said of the appeal while speaking at Amherst College last Tuesday. "This was a government issue. It's acceptable practice to socialize with executive branch officials when there are not personal claims against them. That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack." Old MacDonald Had a Judge...

Excuse me? Did a Supreme Court Justice actually quack as part of a public statement? Is this some sort of joke? No, this is the reality that we now know as our government. I think, perhaps, Scalia has lost his mind. Or maybe "quack, quack" is secret Republican code. Maybe it means, "No worries. I got yer back, Dickie".