“Alito: The life and times of a justice in the making.” Because The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger is a newspaper whose articles do not remain online for long, I’m going to break with my usual vacation-week practice to note that today’s edition of that newspaper contains an article headlined “Alito: The life and times of a justice in the making.”

The article explains, “With the court in summer recess, Sam Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, agreed earlier this month to their first interviews since he was confirmed. They talked about the Senate hearings, about her tearful breakdown during a now famous session. He also spoke about the inner workings of one of the most closely watched courts in the nation’s history.”

Meanwhile, rainy weather today in the vicinity of where I’m vacationing has resulted in an actual doubleheader (not one of those separate-ticket, day-night doubleheaders) tomorrow for the Atlantic City Surf baseball team.