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Gatecrashing Daily Newser Ben Widdicombe this morning provided some perhaps calming insight into SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito by quoting the charmingly amusing musings of his son, Phil, on the website of the Colgate college newspaper. Writes Widdicombe:

According to [Alito's] editor's profile on the Web site of Colgate's student newspaper, The Forum: "I became interested in politics and got involved with Gary Condit (not like that). I served as a parking aide to Nancy Pelosi (I won't even start on her), but was fired when Barbara Boxer came onto me." Since when did college kids get so picky about sleeping with senators? No wonder the country's going to hell.

It's cute, and it suggests a family perhaps not predisposed toward fire and brimstone. There's just one problem, as slutty sister Wonkette noted this afternoon:

His comments have been scrubbed from the Colgate website and the current Phil Alito attends the University of Virginia, ensconced in a college-within-a-college on Monroe Hill. He's cleaned up a bit, too. And maybe changed the color of his eyes? We're not saying the Colgate Alito on the left is a different person than the UVa/White House Official Photo Alito on the right, we're just saying that the one on the left has a better sense of humor.

Sure there must be some explanation — a transfer? some sort of dual-degree program? indentically named cousins? Knowing how quickly Widdicombe can lose control of himself when confronted with reasonably attractive college-aged boys, we asked perhaps misled gossipeuse about Wonk's charge. His reply:

Sorry, I don't read Wonkette.

Which is not exactly a Millerishly stirring defense. And that may, in the end, be a good thing.

The Alito Offspring: A Blogger Investigation [Wonkette]
A Bride With Something Borrowed? [NYDN (last item)]