Althouse: At the Best Date Night Café...

September 30, 2018

At the Best Date Night Café...

... you can talk all night.

95 comments:

rehajm said...: Randy and Coleen are easily amused. Good on em.; 9/30/18, 6:51 PM
Humperdink said...: I see the Oakland Raiders are still playing on a baseball field. Now that's major league (cough).

OTOH, it's easier to draw plays up in the dirt.; 9/30/18, 6:58 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Did Jeff Flake consider the effect his last-minute maneuver would have on the 4 contingent clerks that Kav hired? They no doubt had prepared bench memos for Kav for Monday's oral arguments. Probably for Tuesday's and Wednesday's too. All that work, wasted.; 9/30/18, 7:01 PM
MadisonMan said...: Any turn to below-normal temperatures in late September/early October is never welcome by Yours Truly.

Come back Summer!!; 9/30/18, 7:19 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: In 36 years - you can claim a rape. esp if it's politically motivated.; 9/30/18, 7:20 PM
MadisonMan said...: The inevitable slide to -- what does Althouse call it? -- Darkmonth.; 9/30/18, 7:22 PM
Rabel said...: So there are at least two pickup trucks in Madison.; 9/30/18, 7:27 PM
rehajm said...: So Trump might be on the verge of a better deal. Get ready to suck eggs tv trade ‘expet’ bedwetters.; 9/30/18, 7:31 PM
Sebastian said...: What is the "best date," anyway?

Cheap and easy?

"The patriarchy" doesn't get mentioned?

No daddy issues, like "daddy wouldn't pay for x college"?

Each person pays xer own way?; 9/30/18, 7:38 PM
Etienne said...: I don't think that cable box is wired to code.; 9/30/18, 7:40 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/30/18, 7:40 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Song lyrics by Paul McCartney (1942 - )
-----

Vintage Clothes

Don't live in the past.
Don't hold on
To something
That's changing fast.

What we are
Is what we wear,
And what we wear
Is vintage clothes.

We jump up for joy,
Who cares if we look
Like a girl or boy?

A little more;
A little tall.

Check the rack.
What went out
Is coming back.

-----
Sung by Linda Louden; 9/30/18, 7:46 PM
Lucien said...: Senate confirmation hearings are not job interviews. The Senate is not supposed to say, "nice resume, but we don't think you're the right fit".

The interview was with the President -- whose was elected by the nation, in part because of the kind of Supreme Court Justices he said he would select.; 9/30/18, 7:51 PM
Andrew said...: Has anyone else seen the political cartoon depicting Judge Kavanaugh's child praying for her father. It's really despicable.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/when-they-came-for-kavanaugh-kid-chris-britt/

The Democrats are crossing one line after another. I can only hope they rue the day.; 9/30/18, 8:00 PM
Ken B said...: Andrew
That belongs on the thread where Ann talks about her sense of humour.; 9/30/18, 8:14 PM
Andrew said...: @Ken B,

Ouch!; 9/30/18, 8:21 PM
Ralph L said...: The permanent part of the sign is in Drunk font.; 9/30/18, 8:33 PM
Michael K said...: Yeah. I just saw that cartoon. Women deserve what they get after the last gentleman checks out.; 9/30/18, 8:35 PM
Bad Lieutenant said...: People, talk to the people in your lives who are closest to you, who are good, who have wisdom, but who have been fooled by the Democrats in all the ways they fool good people. Help them draw the veil to see the pit before us all. I'm working on that mother of mine. If everybody of good will turns one voter, we can do this thing.; 9/30/18, 8:36 PM
Curious George said...: "MadisonMan said...
Any turn to below-normal temperatures in late September/early October is never welcome by Yours Truly.

Come back Summer!!"

Wednesday 80. Then that's it.; 9/30/18, 8:49 PM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Trade deals with China and Canada. But those were impossible, weren't they?; 9/30/18, 8:56 PM
Michael K said...: 94 in Tucson today. Winter is coming.

Raining, though; 9/30/18, 9:01 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: "Senate confirmation hearings are not job interviews. The Senate is not supposed to say, 'nice resume, but we don't think you're the right fit'.

The interview was with the President -- whose was elected by the nation, in part because of the kind of Supreme Court Justices he said he would select."

The Senate can treat its consent role any way it wants. How *should* it treat that role? Not as an occasion to accept any old accusation of sexual assault as true, regardless of timeliness, corroborating evidence, motive to lie, etc.; 9/30/18, 9:11 PM
roesch/voltaire said...: Nothing wrong with drinking beer the problem is lying about it:" Former Yale classmates Liz Swisher, James Roche, and Lynne Brookes have also made public statements about Kavanaugh’s excessive drinking during their youth. Swisher told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday that though she never saw Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, the judge was a “sloppy drunk.”; 9/30/18, 9:15 PM
Humperdink said...: r/v said: "Swisher told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday that though she never saw Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, the judge was a “sloppy drunk.”

So we have moved on from sexual assault to Kavy understating his drinking habits? Am I reading you correctly?; 9/30/18, 9:22 PM
rcocean said...: Is Kavanaugh going to be able to "have a few beers" with his SCOTUS buddies?

None of theme seems the beer drinking type.

Either teetotalers or wine drinkers.; 9/30/18, 9:28 PM
rcocean said...: So what are the Dems going to do if Ginsberg dies?

Declare Nuclear war?; 9/30/18, 9:30 PM
Humperdink said...: "So what are the Dems going to do if Ginsberg dies?"

Maybe the D's in the US senate will pull a Wisconsin and flee the country. And then Trump could administer the coup de grâce and refuse their re-entry.; 9/30/18, 9:42 PM
Lucien said...: @rcocean:

I can easily see Kagan having one of her clerks put a different beer on Kavanaugh’s desk every morning. I just hope she gets the chance.; 9/30/18, 9:44 PM
Original Mike said...: Blogger MadisonMan said...”The inevitable slide to -- what does Althouse call it? -- Darkmonth.”

We love Dark. But cloudy and cold; not so much.; 9/30/18, 9:45 PM
Original Mike said...: ”So we have moved on from sexual assault to Kavy understating his drinking habits? Am I reading you correctly?”

And yet, they pat each other on the back and call themselves “liberal”.; 9/30/18, 9:47 PM
Fabi said...: I'm sorry to hear Kav is accused of being a sloppy drunk. Would they say he was Beto O'Rourke sloppy or Teddy Kennedy sloppy?; 9/30/18, 9:48 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger rcocean said...
Is Kavanaugh going to be able to "have a few beers" with his SCOTUS buddies?

NO I prefer this scenario.

Kavanaugh's 1st day at USSC:

Walks into Clarence Thomas' chambers.

Thomas shakes his hand and nods. Hands Kav a glass.

Kav takes a sip of his rye

Kav: "Let's burn this motherfucker to the ground."

Thomas grins.

Yes !; 9/30/18, 9:53 PM
steve uhr said...: Such bull coming from the right -- "we find her credible and think that something traumatic did happen her, but her identification is mistaken" and "this is a Clinton-directed hit job." How are these consistent? Either Ford is part of a left-wing conspiracy or she is not.; 9/30/18, 9:55 PM
Michael K said...: R/V is an expert on drunks.

Did you ever decide to quit ? When?; 9/30/18, 9:55 PM
LilyBart said...: Oh, please, I was in college at this same time and can attest - almost everyone was drinking, frequently drinking too much. This is stupid.; 9/30/18, 9:57 PM
LilyBart said...: Every time I think we've reached peak stupid in this matter - someone raises the bar!; 9/30/18, 9:58 PM
Sebastian said...: "So we have moved on from sexual assault to Kavy understating his drinking habits?"

It's like the Russia collusion moving on to charge a guy for not declaring his representation of Ukraine.; 9/30/18, 9:59 PM
Michael K said...: Either Ford is part of a left-wing conspiracy or she is not.

She is a deeply troubled woman, possibly with recovered memories from therapy for alcoholism, the usual scenario with middle aged woman. She is a leftist activist who is estranged from her family, possibly due to alcoholism or possible politics.

She decided to intervene when Kavanaugh was first discussed in 2012 and fabricated a memory.

He wasn't nominated because Romney lost the election.

In 2016, he was nominated and she decided to take some action,. Whether she wanted this circus is uncertain.

She has certainly been coached. The deleting of social media is suspicious, as are the wrong dates about her house, then fear of flying and the tiny little girl voice.

No dates, places or witnesses.; 9/30/18, 10:04 PM
FullMoon said...: A reminder, R/V was in education. Naturally believes an opinion is a fact if it confirms his previously determined bias.; 9/30/18, 10:05 PM
FullMoon said...: She has certainly been coached. The deleting of social media is suspicious, as are the wrong dates about her house, then fear of flying and the tiny little girl voice.

The cute little giggle when acknowledging the lie about fear of flying should have been noticed. Her explanation was she lied in order to get what she wanted.

Then, the idiot Blumenthal says if a witness lies you can disbelieve all of thier testimony. This from a guy who equated himself for years with veterans who risked their lives, died or were maimed in Viet Nam.; 9/30/18, 10:10 PM
Michael K said...: Steve, I think both can be true about Ford.

They needed someone when then other arguments did not work. She may really believe she was molested.; 9/30/18, 10:27 PM
Birkel said...: I believe Blasey Ford as much as I believe Crystal Mangum.
#BelieveAllWomen

The senators are moral cowards for backing down in front of the MSM/Dem lies.
They would do better to say allegations without any further evidence are of near-zero value.; 9/30/18, 10:50 PM
Known Unknown said...: "though she never saw Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, the judge was a “sloppy drunk.”"

So?

Think about where this is heading. Really think about it. Remove it from the realm of the political and think about what is happening here.; 9/30/18, 10:59 PM
Jupiter said...: steve uhr said...
"Such bull coming from the right -- "we find her credible and think that something traumatic did happen her, but her identification is mistaken" and "this is a Clinton-directed hit job." How are these consistent? Either Ford is part of a left-wing conspiracy or she is not."

I don't find her credible, but it would be comforting to suppose that something bad happened to make her that way. Otherwise, she is just bad meat. In either case, it is evident that she has been manipulated by lawyers working for the Demoncrats.; 9/30/18, 11:10 PM
Known Unknown said...: Nothing wrong with having a fear of flying, the problem is lying about it

Nothing wrong with home renovations, the problem is lying about it.; 9/30/18, 11:16 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Wow, so you can't drink as a young man and hope to serve on SCOTUS. I never knew I was disqualified right from the age of 16.

And, once again, the accusations come from a college professor, this is my surprised face. And the specific charge is pretty fucking hilarious- Kavanaugh allegedly tossed some beer in the face of someone who insulted him, and someone else got arrested. Vote him down now! What do you want to bet this accusation is also unsubstantiated by anyone else present?; 9/30/18, 11:17 PM
Jupiter said...: Known Unknown said...

"Think about where this is heading. Really think about it. Remove it from the realm of the political and think about what is happening here."

Well, the no-doubt extremely liberal Kavanaugh classmate who originally made this argument said that the issue was that Kavanaugh had perjured himself when he testified about his drinking, and that perjury was a disqualification for SCOTUS. I don't agree, but I don't have any explanation for my disagreement that I would expect anyone else to find convincing. I guess I feel that a man asked to comment on his own drinking habits has a perfect right to say anything he likes. But even I don't find that opinion particularly convincing, I just have a lifelong aversion to people who want to talk about my drinking, when we could be talking about their ignorance, stupidity and narrow-mindedness instead. So, yeah, I'm going to try to remove it from the realm of the political and think about what is happening here.

"They all of them talks o' me dhrinking, but they none of 'em talks o' me thirst."; 9/30/18, 11:21 PM
Yancey Ward said...: As I wrote here last night, I now believe Ford was assaulted like she described, but in 1984, not 1982. That lie detector statement she had to write along with the editing and the omission of Kavanaugh by name pretty much seals it my opinion- she wrote the statement that way because it was the only way she could attest to it veracity, and that "coincidentally" explains the therapist notes, the mystery of how she came to the party and departed (she drove), and it explains the weird comment about how it the major effects during the first 4 years- her college years- 1984-1988, not 1982-86.; 9/30/18, 11:22 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I think it really comes down to whether or not Collins and Murkowski want to be a party to pure libel and slander. They are smart enough to know all of these accusations are pure horseshit, but do they have the courage to stand up against it. I don't know.; 9/30/18, 11:24 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I have never seen anyone get drunk who wasn't "sloppy". Seriously, the Democrats are completely deranged.; 9/30/18, 11:25 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Jupiter, he never said he didn't drink, all he really said is that he didn't blackout during a drinking binge. Unless you are a teetotler, you will drink to excess more than one in once in your life, and most of those will be when you are a young adult. I am the same age as Kavanaugh, and I drink today, occasionally, and never to the point of drunkenness any longer, but when when I was in my teens and early to mid 20s, social drinking was common, and often to the point where I was drunk. I also never once blacked out, and I know this to basically a 99.9999999% certainty, but I did often pass out once in a friend's car.

Nothing Kavanaugh stated about his drinking could be construed as perjury at any level, and it certainly couldn't be proven even to the point of probable. This is real desperation at this point, and I am telling you this is the preview of how they plan to deal with Barrett- it won't sexual assault, it will be "I saw her use illegal drugs" or "I saw her steal things from classmates" etc. And it will also all be unsubstantiated and likely outright fabrications.; 9/30/18, 11:34 PM
Ken B said...: Steve uhr is unable to fathom that different people say different things.

Also that, since no one can be sure about any of this, there are different possibilities. In general I see three alternatives
1 he lied, she didn’t
2 she lied, he didn’t
3 neither lied, her memory is false

Now only a deluded fool would think one of these is certain, or impossible. You cannot know for sure. So it is perfectly possible to think that 2 is less likely than the summed probability of 1 and 3. Which is what uhr says is impossible.

For my part I think the evidence favors 3. It’s most consistent with her citing several witnesses but the witnesses contradicting her, as well as the vague and changing details and the passage of a great deal of time. I’d like to know what therapy she had to firm up my estimate.
If you favor 1 or 2, fine but then how do you account for what I just said. In any event I only have a serious problem if you think any possibility is impossible or very unlikely. That is indefensible. It seems to be Uhr's position.; 9/30/18, 11:36 PM
Ken B said...: Yancey Ward
Interesting idea about the year range and the changes. Must mull that a bit.; 9/30/18, 11:39 PM
Ken B said...: Andrew
I'm cruel. But neutral: I used litmus paper and my pH is 7.; 9/30/18, 11:40 PM
Francisco D said...: She may really believe she was molested.

Probably many times when she was drunk, but Kavanaugh was never interested in skanks.

We will find out over time that this was completely a setup.; 9/30/18, 11:41 PM
Fabi said...: Here's the final report from Ratchel Mitchell detailing the multiple inconsistencies by Ford.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1046594762088812545; 9/30/18, 11:43 PM
wholelottasplainin said...: I keep coming back to Miss Ann's bleatings about how she was denied the opportunity to advance academically when she was in high school, and the inference that American society and its values preventing her from fulfilling her destiny.

I call bullshit.

I'm older than Miss Ann, and when I was in high school I was selected by my high school advisors to attend hoity-toity St. Paul's School in NH for a summer session.

Some 400 students from NH high schools attended to take focused college-level courses in the liberal arts and sciences. (Everyone took English as well.)

My course was Inorganic Chemistry.

Thing is, about 40% of the attendees were women. That's right: in the Dark Ages when wymyn were supposedly being kept down by the patriarchy, the fanciest prep school in America was taking in lots of talented wymyn, chosen by supposedly benighted public schools in conservative/uber-patriarchal New England.

Seems to me, Miss Ann is blaming "society" when she should have blamed her socially benighted parents. I keep wondering why a high school teacher would recommend she not take calculus, when calculus was a course not offered back then in ANY public high school in New England.

Seems to me that instead, she extrapolates and projects her reconstructed memories onto the entire country, assuming that the same "correlation of forces" she remembers and resents still exist today.

What bullshit.

Call it #MissAnnBullshit; 9/30/18, 11:43 PM
LilyBart said...: Yancey Ward said...
As I wrote here last night, I now believe Ford was assaulted like she described, but in 1984, not 1982. That lie detector statement she had to write along with the editing and the omission of Kavanaugh by name pretty much seals it my opinion- she wrote the statement that way because it was the only way she could attest to it veracity, and that "coincidentally" explains the therapist notes, the mystery of how she came to the party and departed (she drove), and it explains the weird comment about how it the major effects during the first 4 years- her college years- 1984-1988, not 1982-86.

There are definitely problems with Mayella Blasey Ford's testimony.; 9/30/18, 11:50 PM
mccullough said...: Her parents know; 9/30/18, 11:52 PM
Fabi said...: Ford couldn't remember if she took the polygraph on the day of her grandmother's funeral or on the day after. This is another hoax. Hands up, don't boof!; 9/30/18, 11:53 PM
Etienne said...: Bottom line: Congress relies on the Supreme Court to do decide in cases where they don't have the courage to Amend the Constitution.

If they want something bad enough, Amend. Otherwise remain a bystander.; 9/30/18, 11:56 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Ken B here is the comment I wrote last night in the "At the Saturday Cafe" thread. I wrote subsequent ones that address how she tried to prove it was 1982 during the hearing (a contrived effort, too), and how the date changes can explain the omission of how she got to the party and how she left, and why I think she told the story the way she did:

One of the oddities of Ford's story might be easily explained by the theory that the therapist's notes were right all along, and Ford has not only been lying about it, but actively working around this inconvenient detail all along.

The polygraph exam required Ford to write a statement, the veracity of which she was required to attest to during the exam. Now this was an exam she took on August 7th, if memory serves, a week after she had sent the letter to Eshoo and Feinstein naming Kavanaugh as her assailant, and in the "early 80s" (I will come back to this date description in a moment). However, in the hand written statement she was required to write for the polygraph exam, she does two very unusual things- (1) she doesn't name Kavanaugh at all- it is a generic description of a potential sexual assault, and (2) she first wrote "early 80s", then changed by crossing out the "early", leaving the description of the time as simple "80s".

Why would she do these two seemingly inexplicable things in the polygraph statement- her story she is telling publicly is that it was Kavanaugh who attacked her, and it occurred in the "early 80s". If she is telling the truth, then the statement for the polygraph should have had both Kavanaugh's name and the unredacted "early 80s", but she not only omits Kavanaugh's name, but actively edits her own writing on the general date. At first, I couldn't explain this, but then someone reminded me of the therapist's notes and suddenly it is possible to make sense of this odd behavior. I have been working on the assumption that her entire story is a fabrication beginning to end, but if you give her the benefit of the doubt and accept the therapist's notes as a true depiction of Ford's assault, then you realize that she wrote the polygraph statement that way because it was the literal truth, but if she names Kavanaugh and keeps "early" next to 80s, then suddenly the statement isn't the truth, but is, in fact, a lie, and she was afraid she would fail the exam if she had to attest to that.

I defy you to come up with a better explanation for that polygraph statement- I can't think of one."; 9/30/18, 11:58 PM
Fabi said...: Yancey Ward -- your 11:22 PM seems more plausible than her rehearsed story.; 9/30/18, 11:59 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Remember how she tried to convince people that was 1982, because she "remembered" that it was before she had a driver's license. That is curious construct to my ear, and I think she did that with a very specific purpose- so that she wouldn't be asked if she drove to and from the party.

She had a problem in reconstructing the story so that Kavanaugh could be in the frame- she had to explain her transportation. That is a problem because someone would have had to drive her there, and driver her back, and those people would be witnesses, and the second of them might be a witness who would remember driving home a distraught Chrissy Blasey. Note how Ford discounts Keyser's lack of memory of this event - she points out correctly that the night wasn't memorable from Keyser's point of view (skipping over the fact that Keyser denied even knowing Kavanaugh). However, if she names someone driving her home, that argument isn't as easily invoked if that witness also denies the story.

All in all, the holes, the inconsistencies, and how I think Ford tried to deal with them- especially the therapist's notes, her only supporting witness of any kind, leads me to believe that Ford framed Kavanaugh for her assault. The above combined with the testimony Thursday convinces me that she is a cunning liar, but not a particularly good one at doing it on camera- under questioning, she kept making small errors, and you see that also in that written lie detector statement where she edits her own story to make it fit what the therapist had recorded in 2012 as closely as possible.; 10/1/18, 12:16 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: I find it mildly amusing that Dr. Blasey Ford - our favorite 52-year old psychology cat woman - has hired a female attorney named Katz.

That can’t be a coincidence. Meow!; 10/1/18, 12:31 AM
Ken B said...: Here is a link to get Rachel Mitchell’s report http://kenblogic.blogspot.com/2018/09/rachel-mitchells-report.html unlike CNN, I give the link and no summary.

Everyone here should read it.; 10/1/18, 12:33 AM
Fabi said...: Grassley sent a criminal referral to the DOJ and FBI for the false boat rape story Whitehouse submitted to the committee. I don't care whether it's prosecuted but it is a warning to other potential false accusers -- try this bullshit and you'll have federal authorities at your doorstep.; 10/1/18, 12:50 AM
Yancey Ward said...: KenB, I had read that earlier this evening- I note this part:

"While it is common for victims to be uncertain about dates, Dr. Ford failed to explain how she was suddenly able to narrow the timeframe to a particular season and particular year"

I think she and her lawyers worked on it using Mark Judge's books which are autobiographical and describe his high school years. I think when she first started this endeavor, she wasn't sure how old Kavanaugh or, more likely, didn't know what year he graduated. More importantly, she couldn't risk nailing down a season and year until resources had been spent at least giving a rough outline where Kavanaugh was during his Summers in 1982 and 1983. Though it wasn't revealed at the hearing because no one cared, I would be very curious to find out if Kavanaugh was in Maryland in the Summer of 1983, or was he doing an internship that Summer before college? It could explain why 1982 was finally selected. As for 1982 itself, I think they carefully read Judge's book, and decided the details included could add some meat to the bones of her story. The entire Safeway tangent just sounds terribly contrived to me, like a really bad lie.; 10/1/18, 12:58 AM
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FIDO said...: So I'm watching Ryan Reeve's YouTube series on various historical events and he is talking about the Papal Schism.

Essentially, there was a riot of the Romans, demanding an Italian pope, which the French cardinals, still smelling of French Cheese after leaving Avignon, voted in a Roman pope, even though they wanted to Weinstein their way back to Avignon to their 'parishioners'.

Urban the VI was bombastic, angry and 'not their type'.

Even though EVERYTHING WAS LEGAL, the French tried to call a 'Do Over' and rescind the election.

Does anyone see where I am going with this?

After that was close to FORTY YEARS OF SHIT. The French Cardinals took their ball and went home, elected their own Pope and started a precipitous decline in the Catholic Church...because they didn't know how to lose.

Granted, Urban VI was an asshole.

I submit to you that there is a historical lesson here which is of course that Althouse needs to embrace Kavanaugh and be his bestie. Because Abortion is not more important than America and a 'top legal scholar' such as herself knows that that swing vote is doing essentially nothing to abortion.

But it is a symbol that she isn't getting her way.

Learn to lose graciously, Ms. Althouse. It's painful now, but easier than the Fire.; 10/1/18, 3:40 AM
gilbar said...: It seems to me, that a good explanation of Dr. Ford's story is Sleep paralysis nightmare.
When a person has Sleep paralysis, they frequently think that someone is laying on top of them. Here's my hypothesis.

Dream Starts
While she was at a party, she was going up the stairs, pulled into the bedroom, etc
Someone (maybe even Bret!) pushed her to the bed and lay on her
She couldn't breathe, it was SUPER SCARY!!! She thought she'd die!!!
Somehow she got lose, and hid in bathroom, the went down the stairs and left Immediately
Dream Ends

She doesn't remember how she got to party, 'cause the dream starts with her AT the party
She doesn't remember how she got home from party, 'cause the dream ends
She doesn't remember who's AT the party, 'cause it's a dream (Dream starts on stairs)
No one can verify the party, 'cause it's a dream
Had the dream often enough that it messed her up (was messed up enough that she had dream often); 10/1/18, 4:03 AM
dustbunny said...: My Facebook feed is filled with Urban Dictionary definitions of Devil’s Triangle, boof, etc. The Urban dictionary was started in 1999 so it seems to me the definitions some jackass adolescents had in 1982 could have been specific to their cliques and quite different from a later consensus. Am I wrong in this assumption? Urban definitions seem to be pretty anecdotal and amorphous but prove me wrong Althouse commenters, I’m genuinely curious.; 10/1/18, 4:52 AM
Michael K said...: Up at 3:30 to watch the bats flitting around my hummingbird feeder.

Yancey, the 1984 theory is interesting. The woman is troubled. It's too bad the Democrats are using her this way.

Anita Hill was troubled. She followed Clarence Thomas around until he married a white women.

I would really hate to be one of Blasey-Ford's sons. My god !; 10/1/18, 5:45 AM
rehajm said...: Am I wrong in this assumption? Urban definitions seem to be pretty anecdotal and amorphous but prove me wrong Althouse commenters, I’m genuinely curious.

You are not wrong. In fact, even within the same clique of adolescent jackasses definitions are often different or misunderstood by individuals.

Here, it's all explained in this short educational video: Barry, boffing and fucking are the same thing; 10/1/18, 5:51 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: Urban definitions seem to be pretty anecdotal and amorphous but prove me wrong Althouse commenters, I’m genuinely curious.

The linkable UD seems to always have multiple definitions of things, that change over time. It could mean buttseks, it could mean ingesting drugs (eg alcohol) via rectum, it could mean flatus/flatulence. For all I know it means furniture polish.

What is a fagagle? Apparently a portmanteau of "faggot" and "asshole." And if not? If that's what Natasha said about me to her friends in eighth grade and I assumed it but really she liked me and it was a pet name? I can't be on the Supreme Court? What if I spelled it wrong and it has 3 Gs?

Silly and degrading and it's the Senate I'm talking about here. K was 17 at the alleged time of the alleged assault. What's the white-haired Sen. Whorehouse's, I mean Sen. Whitehouse's, excuse?; 10/1/18, 5:56 AM
Mr. Majestyk said...: I bet all the people on Trump's list of potential nominees are checking their high school yearbooks for embarrassing material and trying to remember what they were doing in their high school and college summers.; 10/1/18, 6:12 AM
rehajm said...: Democrats wouldn't have demanded an FBI investigation if they didn't already know what the outcome will be.; 10/1/18, 6:13 AM
Matt Sablan said...: I see Mitchell using the reasonable prosecutors standard.; 10/1/18, 6:22 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: "94 in Tucson today. Winter is coming."

Heading south soon, with the nights getting down close to freezing. That means that they will soon be shutting down the water in the parks, which mostly means the public toilets. That is usually our signal, or at least when I quit resisting. Her son and family are down by you near Tucson. She has promised for us to visit, probably before the end of the month (now in October). We will honk on the way through town (they are just east of there).

The problem this trip is that we just acquired a mini-cat. Or, I should maybe rephrase that, that we were acquired by the mini-cat. My partner is a firm believer that the cat picks the humans, and not the other way around. It is maybe half Siamese. This is her fourth cat in her life, and all have been at least half Siamese. I think that it is the blue eyes (she has blue eyes, which none of her parents or siblings had) and are supposed to be smart (which she, of course, considers herself). He (the mini-cat) has turned our lives upside down. We parent in shifts, and this was my first night in most of a week where I could turn on my iPad, and not wake him up, and find him enthralled with what hapens when he walks across the touch screen display. He went from 2 lbs to 2 1/2 lbs over the last two weeks, after the vet gave me something to deworm him with. Appears to be a quasi barn cat, which means that he also had mites, or something in his ears. Also, was apparently weaned a couple weeks early, which meant that he wasn't ready for his baby shots when we first went in to the vet. Got those taken care of Friday, as well as his nails clipped. His ears though we're a different story - the vet and his assistant couldn't hold this tiny mini-cat well enough to look in his ears with his ear instrument.

The problem is that I sent the Tahoe south with her daughter and son-in-law in August, so have to stuff everything in the Audi. Normally, with the back seat down, we can stuff it to the roof, and get most everything in. Not this year. T3, the mini-cat, gets most of the backseat, with his cage, traveling litter box, etc. Which is why I am getting a rocket box for the top (technically, the Thule version, since "rocket box" appears to be a Yakima trademark). The Audi doesn't have a roof rack, nor a rain gutter, so we need special parts. Thule has over 500 different types of these, so they had to be special ordered. The result is that in the next day or two, I am going to have to pop up to Kallispell to pick up the new box, since the adaptor has arrived there. Probably a 5 hour round trip, if they are fast at the store. My partner has made me promise not to leave it on the car when we aren't traveling back and forth between MT and AZ. I told her that this isn't CO, or even Spokane, where they are almost a fashion statement, esp in winter. Luckily, the house in AZ has 10 ft ceilings downstairs, so I am already figuring out how to install something in the garage that will let me lift the box off the car, and store it hung from the ceiling. I might be able to replicate that here in MT - if the car fits in the garage with the box on. Won't probably know until I get back from Kalluspell.; 10/1/18, 6:27 AM
Michael K said...: I hope the cat likes the car. I had a great cat when I lived in New Hampshire for a year. He was a six toed cat, which are common in New England. He came as a tiny kitten when I moved in and got along very well with my golden retriever. They would eat out of the same dish. I finally put his food in a dish in the basement so the dog wouldn't eat it. When he was hungry, he would grab my legs as I walked past the basement door. All was well until it came time for the car. He hated the car and would crap in his cage if transported even a short distance. When I moved back to California at the end of the year, I gave him to some friends who were going to live in Connecticut. I saw him a few times on visits and they took good care of him.

Good luck with the cat on the long car trip. My dogs usually like the car although my previous basset hound did not. He was the first dog that didn't like riding in the car.; 10/1/18, 6:43 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger rehajm said...
Democrats wouldn't have demanded an FBI investigation if they didn't already know what the outcome will be.

They don't care and don't expect to learn anything., This is all about delay. At the end of the week, they will demand another week.

Grassley has to end this.; 10/1/18, 6:46 AM
tim in vermont said...: OK, I tried to watch The Space Between Us and I can’t figure out how such a lousy movie got so much attention.; 10/1/18, 7:00 AM
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Humperdink said...: My stepson and DIL moved from our locale (NW PA) to Bend, OR a few years back. They asked us to "hold" their cat Chloe until they got settled. Then we could put Chloe on a plane.

I bugged my kind-hearted spouse when we can we send Chloe into orbit .... er ... put her on a flight. Oh we can't do that, she said. Too dangerous. Besides, we are driving out soon, we'll drive it out. So we go plan our trip. Are we taking the cat? Oh no, it's too far of a drive. Huh? HUH?

Chloe is still with us. Fortunately, it's a great mouser. I come to accept the situation.; 10/1/18, 7:13 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Adding a bit to my cat story - my partner is a cat person, or, maybe I should just admit that she is a crazy cat lady. Last week, she was hell bent on getting a second one. Found one she liked, but the owner dropped the ball. Thankfully. I'm be is enough work. She claims to have always loved cats, esp Siamese, since she brought a purebred home in kindergarten. But it has been over 20 years since she last had one. I asked why? Her response is that it was hard to travel with cats, since most hotels didn't accept pets, but now do. The reality is that a lot of the hotels that we used to stay in still don't allow pets, or, weirdly, cats, but do allow dogs. At least here in MT, about twice as many hotels allow dogs, than will allow dogs or cats. The general exception is for service animals, so, of course, she is going to train the cat to walk on a leash (she failed miserably with the dog I bought her a number of years ago), and then train him to lay over objects that she might stumble over, like curbs, giver her vision issues, and then get him certified as a service animal. We shall see - I mentioned that dog, which was some sort of doodle, maybe a cockadoodle. She thinks he came out of a puppy mill, and that was why she couldn't train him. She got rid of him after finding that he had proudly shit in every room in the house, even after she had put up a fence to keep him downstairs. She is, at least doing better with the mini-cat, since she had him mostly litter box trained in 3 days (mostly, because the worms were causing diarrhea, which meant that he would leave a trail as he ran for his litter box. That I, as the guy, would have to clean up (which is obe of tge reasons I think that feminists who want to live ve without men are crazy).

I think though that there may have been another reason. Her previous cat, Siam, got cut up pretty good by an owl. That was when she was married, and they spent their summers on a ranch they own maybe 5 miles down river from here. Cat was a declawed indoor cat, who got out. Normally, he was protected by the German Shepard, but not, apparently, this time. A barn meant mice, which meant owls, and one of them cut him up pretty good. Her husband wrapped him tight in a towell, and headed for the nearest vet, which was 20 miles east of here (25 miles from the ranch), where the vet sewed the cat back together, at some outrageous cost. And then, to add insult to injury, the cat ran away once they got back to AZ. Years later she thinks that she saw him looking out a window, whe she was walking around the neighborhood, and he seemed (supposedly) to have remembered her. The kicker here is that it was the same vet who sewed up that old cat, and checked out and immunized the new one. It appears that the county here, more than 100 miles long, has one small animal vet, and one large animal vet, both a couple miles apart. I can understand the large animal vet being in the next town west, because it is much more open there, which means more cattle, and a lot more horses. But I would think the small animal vet would be here in the middle of the county. Wishful thinking on my part. The small animal vet has been at that location for better than 20 years, at least, that we know of.; 10/1/18, 7:22 AM
iowan2 said...: Mitchells report covering Fords hearing testimony is extremely concise. Add me to the list of people that believe she did not function well in that format. That aside, These calm exacting questions and answers are not up for debate. The changes in her story, and inconsistencies between her state goals and her actions, build a strong case that Kavanaugh was not the person she thinks did this to her.; 10/1/18, 7:25 AM
dustbunny said...: More on urban definitions. I had friends that went to an exclusive school in Minneapolis and they had an elaborate lexicon for just about everything. They called hippies ‘prawns’ named after a teacher who went to San Francisco’s in the summer of love and came back with flowers in his hair, his name was something like Pranabendu. If one displayed excessive hippie tendencies then they were prawnabendoid. If you look up the word prawn in the Urban dictionary, there is a very salacious definition about women with good bodies and ugly faces, no mention of hippies. If the democrats are hoping to catch Kavanaugh in lies through urban dictionary definitions that started in 1999, good luck.; 10/1/18, 7:37 AM
gilbar said...: rehajm said...
Democrats wouldn't have demanded an FBI investigation if they didn't already know what the outcome will be.

And they Knew that the outcome would be the FBI would say: can't do an investigation in 1 week
As Dr. K said: "It's freezing cold in Tucson; and it's all about delay"; 10/1/18, 7:40 AM
gilbar said...: "elaborate lexicon for just about everything"
In my highschool; people (all people) referred to shoes as Spoons.
When I 1st heard it i asked what/why? Their answer was that they were spoons for your feet.
Two weeks later (and To This Day) i was also telling people that their spoons were untied.

The idea that there is some standard definition of lingo is bat trippy; it's the sort of thing that wallabies would dish on you. The Whole Point of lingo is that people from Boone can't grok what you're snooting at them. Those websters!; 10/1/18, 7:50 AM
roesch/voltaire said...: I read that Michael K woke up after passing out at three to blog more of his talking points, so predictable.; 10/1/18, 7:53 AM
walter said...: Bruce Hayden said...She got rid of him after finding that he had proudly shit in every room in the house, even after she had put up a fence to keep him downstairs.
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That is impressive tenacity.
Set a goal. Tirelessly pursue it.; 10/1/18, 8:15 AM
Andrew said...: I know a woman who for many years convinced everyone she had cancer. This included her family, her friends, and her live-in boyfriend. She went to doctors, lost her hair, had all sorts of treatments, etc. Eventually it was discovered she was lying. She had medical issues, but it wasn't cancer. Her doctors didn't know she was lying to everyone else. Basically it was a form of Munchausen Syndrome. But the thing is, even when she was faking it, she genuinely believed her own lies. Frankly, she was mentally sick.

Dr. Ford reminds me of this woman.; 10/1/18, 8:16 AM
Ken B said...: David Bernstein notes her refusal to turn over records is pretty important. https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/309002/

He is right. She cited these records. Investigators should see the full context and other relevant details. I could selectively edit this blog to make Ann look like she hates Ford and believes Kavanaugh.; 10/1/18, 9:50 AM
Michael K said...: But the thing is, even when she was faking it, she genuinely believed her own lies. Frankly, she was mentally sick.

'I've had a couple of these, and they are always women.

One story is in my book. She simulated a bowel obstruction so well I operated on her.; 10/1/18, 10:44 AM