This calendar shows that Kavanaugh’s never been a man who makes good decisions; he went to Grease II and recorded that fact for posterity!

“Addicted to his self-image” is a good description. I think I’m a fairly good person but I’m definitely able to admit I’ve done things that have hurt people in the past. We all have.

But creating some weird idealized version of himself that is completely counter to how any 17 year old dude is in high school or in college

I am incredibly forgiving of people who genuinely take responsibility and atone for their past mistakes and questionable behavior, big and small. I can’t abide responding to this with wholly unbelievable denials and outright lies.

All but one of the Little Rock Nine are still alive (Jefferson Thomas passed away at age 67 of pancreatic cancer), and we can presume that the children who jeered and threatened and spat on them as they entered the school are mostly all still alive. And voting. I imagine many of those white children felt a deep sense…

Welp. Didn’t know that.

Obviously that second part is muuuuuch easier said than done, but it seems like there’s no amount of shoe gazing and thinkpiece-ing that is going to get around the fact that someone needs to say that a thing that is not generally considered to be explicitly bad, should be considered explicitly bad, and that that thing…

God yes, this is why enthusiastic consent is a must.

See, also, Hugo Schwyzer and Eric Schneiderman. Men who pushed their feminism hard and also loved to abuse women and use their power to prevent women from fighting back and reporting on their bullshit.

Ah motherfucker. And I even saw a comment calling him out on Splinter. Whoops.

“If I’ve got my definition of the Solicitor General nailed down, he’s pretty much the Federal Government’s civil lawyer in front of SCOTUS.”

That is awesome. Wish I could join you all in solidarity!

Aaaaand, apparently Rosenstein is not gone? WTF is this morning.

I wish my job would do that! I lost like... a lot of weight after my picture was taken. 

Ooh, new picture, old job, or old job, new picture?

Literally ate shortribs for lunch that I made in my Instant Pot a couple days ago. They took like 75 minutes to make, start to finish. I’m sure as fuck not making short ribs the old fashioned way!

As someone who was a real square in high school, the whole “getting blackout drunk most weekends” thing that apparently was the norm at Georgetown Prep is unfamiliar to me. But the reports seem increasingly clear that that kind of debauchery was completely common at the time and Kavanaugh engaged in much of it. Put…

It’s completely shocking, or should I say, not shocking at all.

When you say that any move in that direction would almost immediately result in litigation, could it be litigated as a broad class? Or would it have to be done facility by facility (to ensure sufficient similarity among the detainees)

Yeah, there was a whole comment thread about this a month or so ago, but I’m definitely on team age-appropriate crushes.