It’s donation time again!
[BUMPED UP: Scroll down for today’s posts] Of course, you can donate any old time. But twice a year I make a special plea, and I hope you’ll decide to give. I try not to ask too often, but all … Continue reading →
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Christine Blasey Ford: a friend in need
The woman Ford is speaking about here is her lifelong friend Leland, who failed to back up Ford’s story of the party and the attack, and who also denied ever having met Kavanaugh at any time in her life: I … Continue reading →
Bravo, Lindsey Graham
Graham goes quite a bit beyond “Have you no sense of decency?” That’s because he knows the answer; the answer is “none.” ADDENDUM: I’ve read that over the last year or so Graham and Trump have gotten friendly. Maybe that’s … Continue reading →
Alan Dershowitz, yesterday
My respect for Alan Dershowitz deepens, and it was quite deep already. He said this yesterday: The Republican majority on the panel has selected Arizona county sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell for the job, but the issue with her, according … Continue reading →
Theatrical politics: the hearing
[UPDATES below] NOON: So far I have not been able to bring myself to watch, although I probably will watch some of it later. That may surprise you, but it’s for several reasons. The first is that I always am … Continue reading →
Open thread…
…for the you-know-what. NOTE: I’ve started a new thread above this one.
Continue reading →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 →