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"  All in the Family: A 13-year-old Christopher Buckley with his father, political writer William F. Buckley, and his mother, Patricia Buckley. With all the news swirling over Justice John Paul Stevens much deserved retirement plans (c&amp;#039;mon, the guy&amp;#039;s 89!), I couldn&amp;#039;t help but think of Christopher Buckley&amp;#039;s bitingly funny novel Supreme Courtship, a thinly veiled satire about a wildly unpopular American president who in an act of vengeance against an uncooperative Senate, nominates reality TV&amp;#039;s most beloved Texan judge, Pepper Cartwright. It&amp;#039;s not his best work (that would be a tie between Thank You For Smoking and Little Green Men) but it&amp;#039;s a hilarious\u2014and at times incredibly insightful\u2014depiction of the inner workings and politics at play in our country&amp;#039;s highest court. I once had the pleasure of interviewing Buckley via email (always the editor\u2014he worked at Esquire and Forbes Life\u2014he actually edited one of my questions: [[CANDICE: CHANGE TO &amp;quot;WHOSE&amp;quot;]]). I dug up the transcript today. Here&amp;#039;s an excerpt that made me laugh.  Q: Do you ever get nervous that people aren&amp;#039;t going to see the humor in what you&amp;#039;re writing? CB: Oh, that happens all the time, and most often with the reviewers. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve had a good review from the New York Times since I can remember. Increasingly, my attitude is: &amp;quot;F*** `em if they can&amp;#039;t take a joke.&amp;quot; Q: What&amp;#039;s the weirdest experience you&amp;#039;ve had on a book tour? CB: You know those author bios on the flaps of book jackets? My own bio is boring, so I make them up. On one, I said that I was born in 1952 (true) and also that I had been an advisor to every president since William Howard Taft (not true: he was President of the US from 1909-13). I entered the studio where I was to be interviewed by an AM talk jockey. I saw him scanning the author bio, which I knew would be the only part of my book that he would read. He looked up at me\u2014this was before we were on air\u2014and said, &amp;quot;You were an advisor to William Howard Taft?&amp;quot; It was toward the end of the book tour and I was a little punchy. I said, &amp;quot;Um hum.&amp;quot; His brow furrowed and he said, &amp;quot;So we could talk about that on air?&amp;quot; I said, &amp;quot;Okay.&amp;quot; About a minute into our on-air interview he realized he&amp;#039;d been had. It was most satisfying, I have to say, though I doubt I&amp;#039;ll be asked back on... Q: Have you ever got the cold shoulder from someone in D.C. because they thought one of your characters was based on him or her?  CB: Yes, and it was quite awkward, inasmuch as we were seated next to each other at a dinner. I wanted to crawl under the table.  Photo: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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