No! That's not a new article. That's from 2010, in The Guardian, but I'm reading it now because my son John posted it yesterday on Facebook.Typically such cases occur when a vulnerable individual seeks help from a psychotherapist for a commonly occurring psychological problem such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and so on. At this stage, the...
Showing posts with label Kavanaugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kavanaugh. Show all posts
Monday, 8 October 2018
Sunday, 7 October 2018
What does "Come Get Your People" mean?
I had to Google that question as I struggled to understand the NYT op-ed, "White Women, Come Get Your People," by Alexis Grenell. The phrase "come get your people" does not appear in the text of the column, only in the headline. There's a subheadline, "They will defend their privilege to the death." I guess "They" is the white women, not "your people."...
SNL's "Lindsey Graham" says: "Let's keep this horny male energy going 'til the midterms!"
The cold open shows GOP Senators celebrating their Kavanaugh victory in sports-locker-room style and "Chuck Schumer" weakly whining over the Democrats defeat and then getting punched in the balls by "Joe Manchin":You can watch the whole sketch if you scroll back to the beginning,...
Saturday, 6 October 2018
"The crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court is tiny, looks like about 200 people (& most are onlookers)..."
"... that wouldn’t even fill the first couple of rows of our Kansas Rally, or any of our Rallies for that matter! The Fake News Media tries to make it look sooo big, & it’s not!"Trump tweets.Also at Twitter, I'm seeing Jordan Peterson promoting (but not necessarily endorsing) the idea that Kavanaugh, confirmed, should step down. Responding to him...
The Senate is about to call the roll on Kavanaugh...
... just as soon as these protesters can be cleared out of the gallery.AND: That's it! Kavanaugh has survived the ordeal. 50-48, confirmation.I was touched that Senator Murkowski withdrew her "no" vote in deference to Senator Daines who wanted — needed — to be present at his daughter's wedding, so that he did not need to rush back in the middle of...
Friday, 5 October 2018
"The Me Too movement is real. It matters. It is needed, and it is long overdue... I found [Ford's] testimony to be sincere, painful and compelling.
"I believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma has upended her life. Nevertheless, the four witnesses she named could not corroborate any of the events," said Senator Susan Collins, explaining her vote for Brett Kavanaugh. "We will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence."Reported in "Collins...
Acting!
Michael...WE LOST What more could we have done? We don’t have the Senate or the Presidency. What more can we do for god sakes?We should focus on the midterms but stop criticizing without a real world solution. And frankly what were you doing? https://t.co/Gsg0YX26Wy— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) October 4, 2018...
Right now: the Senate is voting on cloture for the Kavanaugh confirmation.
Only about 30% of the Democrats seem to be there.UPDATE: Manchin voted aye. Murkowski no. Collins and Flake voted yes. Stragglers coming in and voting.UPDATE 2: 51-49. Ayes have ...
Slate: "The Kavanaugh Hearings Have Women Fired Up… to Vote Republican."
The article, here, is by Ruth Graham.The titanic anger of progressive women has been a dominant theme in the media since President Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton two years ago. Two major books about female rage have been published this fall, including Good and Mad by writer and reporter Rebecca Traister. “This political moment has provoked...
"My hearing testimony was forceful and passionate. That is because I forcefully and passionately denied the allegation against me."
Writes Brett Kavanaugh in The Wall Street Journal (not blocked by a paywall):At times, my testimony—both in my opening statement and in response to questions—reflected my overwhelming frustration at being wrongly accused, without corroboration, of horrible conduct completely contrary to my record and character. My statement and answers also reflected...
"To think, just a few short weeks ago, we were getting lectured about how unfair, sexist, and racist it was to judge a woman for expressing anger during a tennis game."
Wrote Lyssa in the comments to yesterday's post "The intemperance of the law professors' 'judicial temperament' letter."I had to go back to see what I'd written about Serena Williams back on September 9th:I felt that Williams was trying — very hard — to intimidate the umpire. She was actively bullying him. Hey! That reminds me of Trump. People say...
"The reason to bring up 'Porky’s' now is the laughter — the uproarious laughter. Last week, when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was asked..."
"... what she most remembered about the night she says Brett M. Kavanaugh drunkenly assaulted her, she offered, with some quavering, that it was the laughter between Mr. Kavanaugh and his friend. She told the Senate Judiciary Committee: 'indelible in the hippocampus' — Dr. Blasey’s a professor of psychology — 'is the laughter, the uproarious laughter...
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Trust the FBI! The FBI is the expert authority! Bring in the FBI! FBI!! FBI!!... ... The FBI did it wrong!
So annoying.They cried out over and over for the FBI. The FBI was called in because it was supposedly neutral and expert and the proper authority. Then, when they didn't like what they got, they immediately flipped to saying the FBI didn't do it right.I've seen this kind of game play before, and I when I see it, I get out my old Russ Feingold video:"The...
The intemperance of the law professors' "judicial temperament" letter.
I see over 1,000 names on this anti-Kavanaugh letter, many of them names of people I know. I've been with a lot of law professors over the past 4 decades, and the best law professors I have known have routinely expressed disbelief that the judicial opinions they read state the real reasons why the judges decide the cases the way they do. And I don't...
"White House Finds No Support in FBI Report for Claims Against Kavanaugh/Senators are set to review the FBI’s findings Thursday."
Reports the Wall Street Journal, but I don't have a subscription, so let's move on to the NYT.The NYT headline plays it so neutral — "White House Sends F.B.I. Interviews on Kavanaugh to Senate" — that I infer the FBI report supports Kavanaugh.“The White House has received the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s supplemental background investigation...
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
"Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh—And They Think Other Voters Are, Too."
"Local- and state-level leaders across the country say they’re ready to lash out against Democrats in the midterm elections" — Emma Green in The Atlantic.By and large, these women were not swayed by Ford’s testimony. Tamara Scott, the Republican national committeewoman for Iowa and the state director of Concerned Women for America, says she was...
The cruelest anti-Kavanaugh argument yet.
From "How This Brutal Confirmation Process Could Shape Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice" (Time):Even if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, he will carry scars from the brutal process to get him there.... [A]s he limps over the finish line... the question could soon shift from whether he will be confirmed to what kind...
"Students Filed Title IX Complaints Against Kavanaugh to Prevent Him From Teaching at Harvard Law."
The Harvard Crimson reports, naming a student who supposedly said she'd filed a complaint with the University’s Office for Dispute Resolution and has been urging other students to do the same. We're told that "at least 48 students had signed an online petition certifying they had filed a Title IX complaint against the nominee."The student who...
Venturing into the territory of mocking Christine Blasey Ford, Trump makes a misstep.
I think it's very dangerous to privilege some people to make ruinous accusations against another person, and we've got to find a way to challenge accusers, even though it is important to protect real victims and to encourage them to come forward.It's incredibly difficult to figure out how to do this, and it's especially hard when quite a few people...
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
"There's really no point in risking injury, if the result of a fight is predictable."
I'm quoting Sir David Attenborough, transcribed from a video at "When a hippo is angry, even other hippos get out of the way/Hippos are huge and possess powerful teeth, so real fights are rare because the risk of injury is so great" (BBC).I stumbled into that after beginning the day posting about the death of Peggy Sue Gerron, which felt off because...
