Hot off the criticism over seemingly pre-judging a case, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has raised his hand to the press -- minus 4 fingers.

Emerging from a special mass at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Justice Scalia was asked by a reporter if he received a lot of questions regarding his impartiality about separation of church and state.

Scalia responded, "You know what I say to those people?" and flipped the bird at the press. "That's Sicilian," he said.

Cue Dino. "When critics make you cry then just let the bird fly, that's Sicilian."

A photographer for the archdiocese snapped a picture of the one-finger salute. "Don't publish that!" Scalia warned him.

"Cameras sing their clicky-clicky ring and you'll know you've done a bad thi-i-i-i-eee-eee-ing."

I don't know whether the calls for his recusal after saying the prisoners at Guantanamo had no rights under U.S. law even before he's heard the case have made him particularly touchy about impartiality or not.

Considering this guy swings shotgun with Cheney, I think the assembled press should have run inside and thanked God that all Scalia did was finger them.

Because that would have been Sicilian!