"... if she doesn’t experiment now, in the safe space of a nurturing high school and a loving home, won’t she be awkwardly out of step with her peers when she starts college next year?," writes Debby Berman in "I worry my homebody teen is too much like me. But she has something I didn’t at her age" (WaPo).Is she isolating herself to her own detriment?...
Showing posts with label drinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drinking. Show all posts
Friday, 5 October 2018
Monday, 1 October 2018
Trump takes some questions today about the Kavanaugh investigation.
Trump delivers a virtuoso performance here (I've clipped the Kavanaugh-related part):The best part is when the reporter (Kaitlan Collins) pushes Trump to answer the question whether he will pull the nomination if the FBI investigation shows Kavanaugh lied about drinking, and Trump offers a great nonanswer:I don’t think he did. Look, here’s what — I’m...
Slate — at the behest of my son John — corrects a false accusation that Kavanaugh lied.
Here's a link to the tweet.Here's the follow-up correction tweet:On 9/12 I criticized @thinkprogress for a headline claiming that Kavanaugh "said" he'd overturn Roe. On Friday I made the same mistake, writing that Kavanaugh "claimed" he was legal to drink in HS. Thanks to @jaltcoh...
Sunday, 30 September 2018
"But how can you love a liar?"/"I don't know. But you can, fortunately. Otherwise there wouldn't be much love in the world."
Those are lines spoken in the play "Heartbreak House," by George Bernard Shaw, which we saw at The American Players Theater yesterday. The 1920 play is set just before World War I. The line "But how can you love a liar?" is spoken by the rich bohemian woman Mrs. Hushabye, and...
Friday, 28 September 2018
"I reported the Bloomberg article to Facebook as 'False News.'"
Writes John at Facebook, linking to a Bloomberg article with the headline, "Kavanaugh Wrongly Claims He Could Legally Drink in Maryland."From the hearing transcript:My friends and I sometimes got together and had parties on weekends. The drinking age was 18 in Maryland for most of my time in high school, and was 18 in D.C. for all of my time in high...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
"Kavanaugh’s ‘choir boy’ image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates."
WaPo reports on the inner feelings of a large group of human beings."... rankles former Yale classmates." There should at least be a "some" in that headline: rankles some former Yale classmates.... They're purporting to talk about a set of persons that includes thousands....
Saturday, 22 September 2018
"The drinking was unbelievable," said Bernie Ward, who was the sex-ed teacher at Georgetown Prep in the Kavanaugh years...
... and who — according to "'100 Kegs or Bust': Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery" (WaPo) — "later spent two decades as a radio talk-show host in San Francisco and served six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography."“It was part of the culture. A parent even bought the keg and...
