Brian E. Gray, a law professor at U.C. Hastings, also noticed the...um—let’s call it the “incongruity”—that exists between Alito’s decisions and his choice of Lennon’s words to describe them, and he has expressed his observations in a hilarious Morning News piece called, appropriately, You Are Not Cool. A quote from the article:

At this point, I began to imagine how John Lennon would have reacted both to Alito’s cooptation of his lyrics and the justice’s decision in [another] case to deny monetary compensation to Diana Levine, a professional musician. Levine’s right arm had to be amputated after she developed gangrene because of faulty labeling of the pharmaceutical company’s anti-nausea drug Phenergan, which she received by inadvertent intra-arterial injection. “[T]ragic facts make bad law,” was Alito’s only lament. It is a far cry from a world in which there is “no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man.”

Justice Alito is a conservative whose views on government promotion of religion and corporate evasion of responsibility for violations of state health and safety laws may or may not comport with the intentions of the framers of the Constitution. But whatever Justice Alito’s legal philosophy, one thing he isn’t is cool.

Pretty awesome and very funny. To read the whole thing, go here.

* So is Scalia, but I don’t have all day here.