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One pleasant upshot from the squalid, sordid debacle the GOP is staging is that Sen. Susan Collins, should she choose to press her luck and run for another term, will not be re-elected.

Three days ago was my birthday, and it was also my mother’s mother’s, born in 1903, fifty-six years before I came along. The last time I was saw her was in 1990, a year before she died. I’m so glad … Continue reading →

We thought after MeToo it wasn’t possible, but it looks like the GOP’s attempted character assassination of Dr. Blasey Ford is on track to be just as ugly as what they did to Anita Hill. And some of the middle-aged … Continue reading →

Kavanaugh’s handlers now insisting that what he did at the party (the one he didn’t go to) was merely “rough horseplay.”

Just signed up for Judd Legum’s on-line Popular Information. A really good roundup.  

What else are they conspiring to hide about Kavanaugh’s past?

He lies constantly but he’s a terrible liar; the only reason he’s been able to get away with it so far is that vital information has been, time and again, denied his interlocutors. CATEGORICALLY, he’s sure that he wasn’t at … Continue reading →

Sen. Hatch’s histrionics attempting to preemptively smear Anita Hill haven’t aged well; for hokiness and fraudulence they hold their own, let’s put it this way, with anything that Hatch might say today, although he’s capable of less an array of … Continue reading →

At this point he can only withdraw his nomination, which would be the honorable thing, or double down on the lying he’s done all through his confirmation hearings. We know what he’s doing. And, yes, his attempt to silence the … Continue reading →