Hmmm, will he, brave soul, be tarred and feathered by all the usual suspects (IOW former compatriots) and run out of Dodge…? (Or might this be the start of a beautiful relationship? )

And might one wonder if Robin DiAngelo will have her own “Come to Jesus” moment? After all, she’s likely made more money than she ever thought possible. And it must be very wearying proclaiming day in, day out just how fragile White Folks are. (And how racist.) Well, stay tuned…

File under: High Noon at the Senate Judiciary Committee.

But in the modern world: Would you say the #MeToo movement was effective at naming / shaming / celebrities, destroying their legacy and removing their earning potential – or not? Bill Cosby? Kevin Spacey? Harvey Weinstein? Dozens of others, either with no viable career or even being investigated/prosecuted? How about #Believe All Women? Did that cause some grief for Kavanaugh, even as unwarranted and ultimately fraudulent as it proved to be?

But the Biden themes are archetypal of a ruling class from any age: Outrageously unacceptable public behavior that escapes sanction or condemnation.

Joe is a mediocrity who managed to connive his way upward in the Democratic Party. He’s been safely insulated from normal people for 50 years. His only behavioral contacts are his peers, and many of them are as bad as he is, or worse – but they know they must do these things in private. Joe’s missing that filter: Discretion. It’s a gap in his pathology. That’s why he’s always been a loose cannon, and un-trustable.

That’s why we have the ‘Crazy Uncle Joe’ myth, trying to patronize creepy and unacceptable behavior. Looks like it’s mostly worked too, but it wouldn’t if people were more vocally honest about their disgust.

Obloodyhell, First, I misspelled it no matter what, but in my defence, I was thinking about how Israeli’s say mish-a-gash, the emphasis on the part of the word -mish, which is pronounced like its own word. However there is no “e” in Hebrew so I think I just through it together in English. You can’t go to Israel and say meshugah or meshugannah they’ll rip you for it. In the end all three ways are said and used, it just depends where you are.

And they roll over and play dead around Boston and Providence. Their first loss occurred last year when Robert Kennedy’s grandson, who had a safe seat in the House (and has no scandals attached to his name) attempted to knock-off an incumbent Democratic senator. Note, he was elected to Congress in 2012; no one of consequence challenged him for the Democratic nomination. The last time the Kennedys got push-back from local pols was in 1986, when Joseph Kennedy II had to put in some effort to win the Democratic primary to replace Tip O’Neill, who was retiring. He was 34 years old, he’d never held elective office before, he’d paralyzed a woman in a witless vehicle accident 10 years earlier, he had an embarrassing educational history, and he was employed by a family-founded philanthropy which was in essence a PR scam. He still got the endorsement of Tip O’Neill and the Boston Globe.