Open thread…
…for the you-know-what. NOTE: I’ve started a new thread above this one.
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Prediction for tomorrow’s hearing
I don’t think one single Senate vote depends on how Ford and Kavanaugh perform on Thursday, or even whether or not she shows up. The voting will go entirely according to politics and party, and the few possible swing votes … Continue reading →
You call that a polygraph?
Perhaps the Ford forces thought it would never come to this. Because they couldn’t possibly have thought that anyone would accept these results as evidence of anything except their own conniving and misleading duplicity: Ah, that's why they didn't want … Continue reading →
The Furies
It’s no accident that the Furies were women: According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes [Furies] (along with the Giants and the Meliae) emerged from the … Continue reading →
The allegations escalate
Now we have the promised gang-rape allegations from a woman who went to Avenatti (Stormy Daniels’ lawyer) with allegations that Kavanaugh and Mark Judge ran or were participants in a gang rape ring in high school. Drudge has the link; … Continue reading →
Ramirez, Mayer, and the Yale alum network
In one of yesterday’s posts I pointed out that Ronan Farrow has made the following statement about Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez: She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did not flag this. This came to … Continue reading →
Ronan Farrow says that Democrats found Ramirez
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] My my my: Check out what Ronan Farrow said on Good Morning America earlier today: STEPHANOPOULOS: Why did [Deborah Ramirez] come forward? FARROW: She came forward because Senate Democrats came looking for this claim. She did … Continue reading →
We have a sudden 15-fold increase in blog spam today
I wonder why. Traffic’s up all around the blogosphere with this Kavanaugh brouhaha. I think it might be a consequence of that. I doubt it’s specific to me, though; the spam seems to be of the very ordinary kind. So … Continue reading →
Character and crucible: Thomas and Kavanaugh
Yesterday I put up a short clip of Clarence Thomas excoriating the Senate Democrats at his 1991 hearing. I want to highlight it now: Thomas speaks with great eloquence, but it’s his affect that is especially arresting. You can feel … Continue reading →
What motives drive false accusers?
The answer might seem obvious, but I think it’s more complicated than most people might think. Let’s leave out accusers who are telling the truth. I’m interested in the ones who are not. They can have multiple motives, too. This … Continue reading →
Kavanaugh, the virgin rapist
Too much information, Brett! But perhaps helpful and necessary information. The left picked quite a target for their sexual misconduct charges: Or course, the left will mock him for this. They will also say that’s why he had to rape … Continue reading →
And speaking of Google and the algorithms it uses…
Just now I read that Brett Kavanaugh had issued a statement about the new accusations and the fact that he plans to fight them. I wanted to look at his exact words, so I Googled “Brett Kavanaugh statement” and then … Continue reading →