The fish and chips and pie were the biggest takeaways from the folks I’ve talked to as well. That’s a sad report though. It’s been a while since I’ve been there but even last year, I’d heard from friends that it was still pretty good. 

I’ll say this, I do actually hate tapas but it’s wholly because it’s unnecessarily expensive not because it isn’t delicious. Dim sum is way better because it’s affordable.

This is one of the few areas where I’m okay being “that person” but there are terrible people in every state in as great a number as Texas. I’ve definitely lived in them as part of my life after Texas tour. 

Wittes’ dumdum pandering aside, I do think it’s a good place to start talking about the coded-ness of demeanor and how fragile and tenuous our benefits of the doubt are. Who and how we allow to present “passionately”and the characterizations of that are a complicated problematic thing.

Right. And I can’t really take seriously Wittes’ intellectually dishonest finger-wagging at the left. As an attorney, I’m most appalled at the failures of process, particularly the utter failure to make a proper record because of the majority’s hyper-partisanship and withholding documents in their petty rush to confirm…

This is really disappointing (again). And hypocritical for people representing constituents who are already exploited by the federal government. I get that governing means making tough choices but they should at least say that don’t want to pay for the policy change rather then relying on disingenuous justifications…

Black Dynamite! I could stand to watch that again as a pick me up for sure. This is a pretty good crop for October. Someone told me I should watch Big Mouth so I’ll get on that if there’s a new season coming. 

I went to a literary convention and basically talked about books and reading and storytelling for two and a half days. Bliss.

It doesn’t really look that way in how he’s avoiding answering questions from certain Senators, you know, the folks conducting his job interview. 

If this were a criminal investigation, I’d agree, especially since my family would have the grave disadvantage of being black men in America. But it’s essentially security clearance for a job interview. I’ve told clients this too—don’t lie during the job interview process because if you’re subject to a background…

And there’s this: “I ask you to judge me by the standard you’d want applied to your father, your husband, your brother, or your son...I am innocent of this charge.”

Seems like an independent FBI investigation would really be something he’d support then, right?

Also worth noting is that at the time and up until this very moment, there has been an ongoing battle over the majority’s failure to disclose most documents regarding Kavanaugh—documents that should have been provided by the same rules they insisted on when confirming Kagan and Sotomayor. So I’m not really moved by…

Sotomayor and Kagan had full records disclosures. Kavanaugh has not. If the majority had followed their own protocol instead of trying to force this nomination, this would be an entirely different conversation. 

I don’t disagree. But it’s a difficult argument to support the majority when at the same time, they were making investigation and vetting pretty much impossible by surrendering document disclosure to partisan gatekeepers (which still hasn’t been resolved by the way) and failing to disclose relevant background materials…

You’re right, it’s a congressional hearing not a trial. Fact-finding should be done with the goal of assessing Brett Kavanaugh’s character and honesty during his job interview. Introducing an adversarial, prosecutorial element invokes burdens of proof and evidentiary protocols that are absent here. Essentially, it’s a…

Sorry, we are nostalgic hoarders. I’m actually not a hardcore astrology person but I have lots of friends who are. We are of the same mind on this issue.

That’s an interesting point! Although I do like the idea of senators acknowledging what this woman is being put through by addressing her directly and making an effort to speak responsibly about what it is they hope to accomplish from her testimony.

At the very least there should have been an FBI investigation to prevent this mess in the first place. It takes a few days. I mean, it’s the lowest common denominator for that whole “advice and consent” thing that the Senate is supposed to do when vetting judges (but as we know, that hasn’t been a high part for this…

It would be fine if the rationale was neutrality. But it’s not, it’s to make this look like a trial. And even that’s not great because it then is a reminder that they should at the very least be aided by a law enforcement investigation. Everything that Grassley and other’s have said is that this is a CYA measure.