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Scalia's father was a Dante scholar. I learned this trying to find out when his parents died, as a possible indication of when he will. Allegedly there's a 1 in 3 chance a conservative justice will die during Obama's first term. All I've been able to dig up is they died around 1986, when he was fifty. So maybe seventy-five or so? He's 73. As is Kennedy in two days.

Finally turned in my masters, which probably explains why I don't know what to do with my time.