When a colleague says he would rather “hide my head in a bag” than agree with something you’ve written, how can you possibly face each other the next day?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said those words about Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges on Friday. He added for good measure that by embracing Kennedy’s lofty writings about liberty, the high court had descended to “the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”