Not only that but I see Kate as being self-protective and protective of her family. As long as she stays in the hospital, there has to be extra security to prevent photogs from trying to get pictures and tabloid reporters from dressing up as hospital staff to infiltrate her room, etc. There’s breathless reporting from…

How about Brett “Rape Room” Kavanaugh?

I don’t agree that CA can do more outside the country or by trying to secede but I do agree that we need to map out a better long game that is structural. This has been coming since the impeachment of Nixon. Reagan was an important piece and IIRC, Vanity Fair did a mind-blowing article way back about the money men who…

It doesn’t matter now WHAT the Trump crime family did, or what any of his cronies did, since this was the seat they needed to ensure they can take any election and pardon any wrongdoing by any supporter, including Trump himself. This was Coup 2.0 and people who think this stops are women’s rights haven’t yet looked at…

Yes - what’s outrageous is that they’re saying women’s testimony must be backed, preferably by a man.  Men testify all the time and someone is convicted on the basis of their testimony (or even without it, as you note).

Somehow I hear Dan Akroyd’s voice saying, “Susan, you ignorant slut.”

Ugh, what can we do to make this Collins’ last term?

“I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad. I testified with five people foremost in my mind: my mom, my dad, my wife, and most of all my daughters.”

The rich and well-connected have hundreds of “friends.”  There are about two real friends on their Christmas card lists.

It’s what Clarence does, after all.  Talk about phoning it in.

His behind-the-scenes efforts to get Ramirez reminded me of something else I haven’t heard anyone comment on about the attempted rape of Christine Blasey Ford: that he and Judge actually seemed to set up a situation where they laid in wait for a girl to come along.  They didn’t follow her up the stairs, it seems, and…

It’s right up there with the emailed birthday cards, which say, “I don’t care enough to find an envelope and a stamp but yeah, happy birthday.”

Apparently.  Maybe she feels responsible for getting the boob job?  Or for the tight, low-cut tops?  Or was she drunk and thinks she “deserved it?”  

I feel vindicated in that I predicted this would be exactly where the White House would go for Sunday morning shows: Kellyanne #metooing and then somehow twisting it in their favor.  She’s like the card girls before a fight.  Whatever idiotic thing Trump is about to do in the ring, there’s Kellyanne, holding up a big…

For fun, we should let this be a springboard to learning about what kinds of FBI investigations are standard for other positions. I had an extremely short term contract job helping with events at a museum in D.C. It was not a federal position but financially supported by some federal dollars, and the federal…

Not to go all yearbook on this but gee, Bobby, all week I’ve been saying, “WHERE is Bobby Finger and why won’t Jezebel post his stuff and WHO are these pretenders (sorry nice other columnists)????” I hope you get a book contract out of this because selfishly, I need the laughs with insight and heart that are indelibly…

I just want to highlight this for its “for decades” point. The GOP’s dark money has been playing the long game through things like taking governorships of former blue states, like Wisconsin, through packing courts, and through tax laws that have greatly enriched the greatly rich already. Progressives/liberals, of…

Stars for “meaty spittings.”  Too true.  And for the Kamala Harris suggestion.

I think you left out, “THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!” [insert red face]

The thing about the GOP is that they have such a well-funded machine that they have market-tested all possible strategies, and Kavanaugh’s outragey baby act is all of a piece with Clarence Thomas’ hostile, angry performance. It’s meant to whip up the base, make Ford and all her supporters afraid, and show that if…