I’m fine with what the brother chose to do.  It’s his pain and he has the right to make this choice.  I have a big problem with the Judge doing the same thing. And like, everyone else involved.

Christ on a crutch, has there ever been a better example of white woman tears than this?  The entire courtroom stops so that the white woman WHO MURDERED A MAN can be comforted?  FUCK.

So much this. I admit that I watched the forgiveness speech last night and was moved. My kids watched it as well, and I said “His brother is a better person than I am.” And then we went to bed.

Heh. My FIL who I no longer speak to is a retired judge, my MAGAT-voting wife has a masters, most of the college-educated (and unionized!) people I work with vote R. Education unfortunately doesn’t overcome fear-based idiocy/mental illness.

Especially if they come from money and comfort.

trump has turned my former libertarian husband into a democratic socialist, so that’s fun.

One of the highlights of the Kristen Gillebrand interview on NYT’s The Daily podcast was when she made the point that his successor is doing just fine and is a valuable and contributing member of the Senate.

I giddily look forward to the day that Dancing With the Stars declines his agent’s offer to appear as a contestant. I will make a big fucking unfrosted white cake, push two little chocolate chips into the spongey top, and pretend I am eating his stupid head.

Seeing all the assorted rightists blustering their way through interviews this weekend was equal parts hilarious and mind-bending. They were all so far out there, it really made me think this could be Trump’s undoing. The desperation was that thick.

Not really inclusive for Palestinians and their allies. But I guess that doesn’t matter as long as American Jews feel welcome.

Also, frankly, people move when they’re sleeping. My partner promises every night to sleep on his side, but I routinely awake to his snoring and nudge him to roll over. Even with the best of intentions, sleeping pregnant women are going to roll over and move, so if sleeping on one’s back had a serious impact on…

Three. No, four? Shit! Am I close?

Grounds for dismissal from the Supreme Court, 30 years later? It seems everyone wants to ratchet up outrage first and see what it can do, and think about it critically after or maybe even not at all.

Any man who shoves his dick in another person’s face without permission forfeits that dick. That is never ‘harmless fun’, that is sexual assault. Dick-waving itself is the truly monstrous thing, and monsters... must be slain.

Sure it does. A guy isn’t going to do that because he thinks the woman will say “yay!” and commence to sucking. He’s going to do that because he knows it will make her uncomfortable. In this case, she’s saying that she felt Kavanaugh did this to flex his power over her - to say, “See, I can do this nasty, threatening…

Probably you shouldn’t make sweeping statements about what people’s reactions to penises should be unless you’re a) a woman who has made the choice to wait until marriage to have sex and deserves not to encounter her first penis in a humiliating situation where she’s made fun of, or b) a woman who’s been molested,…

Translation: Susan Collins goose is cooked.

A sex offense? Yes. Pushing your/someone’s uncovered genitals toward someone’s body when not wanted? Preeeeetty much the definition.

I think Kavanaugh should be tied to a chair and have a litany of non-white dicks thrust into his face non-stop over the course of several days.

They knew Trump was under investigation when they said there was no clear link according to FBI. They dropped huge Trump tax story in middle of Kavanaugh hearings and it got buried. Now they strangely frame this story.