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I’m going on vacation, but of course others will be blogging here. Click on the image if you'd like to see some more Roberts cartoons:

I bet you've never seen a donkey-shark before, have you? :-) Conan O’Brien recently had some wisecracks about Roberts, at W’s expense:

President Bush announced his Supreme Court pick. Isn't that exciting? President Bush announced that he has nominated Judge John Roberts to the court. When asked why, Bush said he picked Roberts because he has one of the finest legal minds since Matlock. . . . President Bush had breakfast with his Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Afterwards Bush said he's never seen such a qualified candidate, and John Roberts said he's never seen a grown man eat Count Chocula.

Feddie already linked to a funny Jon Stewart video regarding Roberts, and here’s more. Finally, some lesser-known remarks by the nominee....

In a case involving discrimination and a church-run school, Roberts wrote in an Aug. 2, 1984 memo, "There should be little press interest . . . since we are on the side of the black parents at this point."

In another memo, replying to an eccentric octogenarian who had suggested that the 17th Amendment (which mandated popular election of US senators) was invalid, Roberts said the White House would normally not reply, but should make an exception. ''Anyone who can quote inspiring passages from Plato and Webster, however, and use a word like 'slumgullion,' deserves a reply, and I have drafted one," he wrote.

In August of 1983, a University of Georgia professor wrote what Roberts called a "snide letter" to Reagan, alleging that a government agency was compiling a blacklist and suggesting that the government might investigate him for complaining about it. In a memo to his boss Fred Fielding, Roberts noted, "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody wants to get on."

Hat Tip: Villainous Company.