Ever since we crawled out of bed this morning, we here at Wonkette Central have been wondering how best to handle Charles Lane’s totally awesome review in the Washington Post of Chief Justice John Roberts’ new “kid-friendly” biography, now on sale at the Supreme Court gift shop. We know, we know: gift shop? Can you buy genuine Supreme Court gavels there? Not answered in the article, but a lot else is. Basically, we’ve decided to just excerpt the best of the piece, along with an attempt to transcribe our own dumbfounded reaction. That’s right: it’s a snarky summary of an earnest summary of a book written for 12-year-olds. This skillfully illustrates why blogs exist and why maybe they shouldn’t. Layers of intertextuality continue after the jump.

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