In case you missed it while I was driving across Indiana.
Part One.
Part Two.
Lindsay Graham lowers the boom.
A ton of links at Drudge.
Glenn Reynolds– “Had he received a normal confirmation, I suspect Kavanaugh would have been a bit of an establishment squish. I rather doubt that he’ll be that now.”
Latest breaking is that some Democrats may be wavering, and may vote for Kavanaugh.
The drive to sink Kavanaugh is liberal totalitarianism
When Every Boy Is Guilty, Every Girl Becomes a Monster
This morning I woke up to an article in my inbox about a student at a middle school in Colorado Springs who was arrested and suspended for “sexual harassment” with allegations about as credible as the ones brought against Kavanaugh. And I want to throw up and hit people.
Hell, make her testify.
1) Breaking, and a big deal: Fourth person that Ford named as present at infamous event denies even knowing kavanaugh, much less ever attending a party where he was present.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 23, 2018
Then let the defamation lawyers take it from there.
Ian Buruma, Oct 6, 2016 – “Hillary Clinton, the Democratic US presidential nominee, recently described supporters of her opponent, Donald Trump, as a ‘basket of deplorables.’ Although she later apologized for her remark, which was neither tactful nor elegant, she was more right than wrong.”
Ian Buruma, September 19, 2018 – Ian Buruma Is Out At The New York Review Of Books After Justifying The Decision To Publish Jian Ghomeshi’s Essay
Those were the days: Why Christine Blasey Ford’s High School Year Book was scrubbed from the internet.
Teach women not to molest.
Maxine Waters Assaulted me 25 years ago when I was 2 years old. Please listen to my story & retweet so the FBI can launch an investigation. pic.twitter.com/pzSvhT6kMo
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) September 19, 2018
This wouldn’t happen if they’d majored in welding: Women borrow more than men do, and then earn less, making it harder for them to repay their loans
McGill University Professor of Psychiatry and CAFE Advisory fellow Robert Whitley is sounding the alarm on the men’s health crises on Canadian University and College campuses. He has issued an Open Letter calling on student governments and campus administrations to support the emergence of men’s issues awareness societies and men’s health support groups across Canada.
Good luck with that.
Grace Carr notes an unexpected development:
Zander Keig, a Coast Guard veteran, now works as a clinical social work case manager at San Diego’s Naval Medical Centre. She started transitioning in 2005. She told the Washington Post that she was encouraged to speak up loudly and often when she was a woman, but now that she looks like, and identifies as, a man, she gets accused of “mansplaining,” “taking up too much space” or “asserting my white male heterosexual privilege,” by outspoken feminists like her former self.
But then it’s too late because your reputation, career, and often your life is destroyed. One wonders if any of the online mob who actively attacked Professor Galloway will now step up to admit their mistake. Sadly, shame doesn’t seem to exist for many in 2018.
I realize that anything I say will be used against me. I will be accused of victim-blaming and discouraging victims from coming forward. The hatred and gleeful malice I have seen directed at me, my family, and anyone with the temerity to suggest I am not a monster has shattered me. I have watched as individuals who have never met me spent the past few years relentlessly attacking me, treating it all like some sort of game, a way to carve out a name for themselves. They display their false virtue like the tail feathers of a peacock. One University of Alberta professor puts her hatred of me in her official bio, and when I wrote to her asking that she take into account that I am a human being with feelings, and that my children read what she says about me, she responded by hosting a live-tweeted “academic” conference in which I was called a rapist and compared to Robert Pickton.
Andy Ngo on the inexplicable demise of an intersectionally feminist bookstore:
The customer wasn’t always right. In fact, he was expected to “abide by” seven “guidelines” including this one: “Cishetero-patriarchy exists, white supremacy exists, ableism exists, racism exists, colonialism never ended, capitalism is bad. This is not a space where we argue about the basics of the situation.” […] Signs denouncing police, the U.S. military and immigration authorities lined the windows. Inside, I looked at some of the merchandise for sale. There were “Riots not diets” buttons and a “Fuck patriarchy” T-shirt. The latter was double-extra-large—too big for me.
We’d all still live in caves, but with really, really expensive gender studies degrees.
You see, when your preferred candidate loses an election, what you really need is some channelling of ancestral spirituality. As opposed to say, a sense of proportion. And so Ms Quintanilla lists some “spiritual practices” in order to enable fellow feminists to cope with the unutterable trauma that is their lives… Suggestions include feeling the breeze, watching trees grow, and, er, pushing up against said trees. No, I don’t know either. But apparently, if your psyche has been exploded and rendered unto dust by the election of someone other than Hillary Clinton, you should immediately find a tree and push up against it. It’s the feminist way.
In some severe cases, feminism can leave a woman virtually unrecognizable.
Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day in the City of Toronto. Read my proclamation here: #MHDay2018 pic.twitter.com/lKlZYii3v8
— John Tory (@TorontosMayor) May 28, 2018
We’d all still live in caves, but with really, really fancy curtains.
Founded by the charismatic Stanford dropout in 2003, its promises to revolutionize blood-testing—and by extension, the vast industry of medical diagnostics—would be swallowed whole by most of the technology press, which would lavish Holmes with glowing coverage. (WIRED was not exempt). Only later—in October 2015—would the truth come out: Theranos was a fraud built on secrecy, deliberate fabrication, and hype. After I revealed that fraud, the company would begin an implosion that continues to this day.
h/t Steve from Rockwood
A case of the vapours: Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily