Apropos of Nothing...

but it has been my experience, that no one quite carries on like this who doesn't harbor very real feelings of guilt.
When you have something to hide, you scream and carry on, because its your crapulous feelings/memories you are fighting...And even if Mark Judge can't vindicate Judge Kavanaugh he ought to testify all the same, otherwise it implies that evidence is being deliberately withheld.

"I Heard Smiles"

A colleague of mine, the veritable "Sage of Winter Hill", remarked with some mirth yesterday that Trump's disastrous press conference resembled nothing so much as Humphrey Bogart's "Captain Queeg" coming apart at the seams on the witness stand.
A very insightful observation to be sure, even if Trump's standout quote "I Heard Smiles" is a soaring poetical conjuration worthy of Rod McKuen or perhaps Gerardus Tros.  No I have little to add to the general shock,mirth & anxiety save to say that quite literally Trump has been coming apart at the seams live on television since 2015, but unlike Captain Queeg, he isn't being held accountable for it.
Why?
The man has enablers, most of them, in fact hate Donald Trump with a mortal passion, but as long as they fear him and his hold on the "GOP Base", as long as he nominates Falangists to Judgeships and as long as there is a ruinous tax cut to be passed, they'll hunker down and do as they are told.

Thus the day will come when we can carve on Mitch McConnell's tombstone "He Made a Bonfire of his Country to warm his Ideology".

But don't worry when that day comes, many years from now, McConnell, Charles Grassley and Paul Ryan will all rate Flag Draped Coffins, the very national ensign whose proud essence and liberties they did their uttermost to destroy.
Ironic Huh?

Charlie "Lumpy" Baker....Lifelong Moderate:

Just remember when prestige and power is on the line, Charlie Baker would endorse embrace or just cravenly capitulate to just about any Falangist Bastard. He has a particular gruesome talent for consorting with Fagbashing thugs (pictured above VP Pence, unpictured, Geoffrey Diehl) without compromising his own alleged bona fides with the gay community.

Only in America..

Does a woman have to defend her accusation of rape against a powerful man, by hiring lawyers at her own expense....
Abraham Lincoln would be the first to note the burden of proof is on both the US Senate and the Executive Department, this is a felony accusation after all.
But then there is a grim irony in all this, as a young Unscrupulous Falangist Attorney, Kavanaugh fruitlessly sherlocked Hilary Clinton looking for proof of criminality in the death of Vincent Foster. Now someone is sherlocking his privileged @ss and of course, Kavanaugh and his supporters are squealing like entitled little bitches.
So much politics, much of it praetorian, so little reverence for the US Constitution, this cannot be sustained over the intermediate term, sooner or later Justice and Truth will rain down from the Heavens like retribution.

A short note to my delegation to the Great and General Court...

Representatives Garballey & Rogers, Senator Friedman,

After last weeks fatal and terrifying "overpressure event" in Lawrence/Andover...feel free, all of yes, to Investigate The Shit Out of this Disaster!!!
This is the exactly the sort of thing, the state legislature usually does with admirable dispatch and thoroughness, ergo sticking their collective nose in someone else's shady-ass business!!!
I don't care how it's done, Senate Committee,  House Committee, Joint Committee, maybe even a Citizen's Commission...as long as the power of subpoena is in play I'll be happy.  Grill those bastards from Columbia Gas like some barbecue bratwursts!!!
Don't wait around for Charlie "Lumpy" Baker he'll dither and mutter platitudes, harassing miscreants in the private sector isn't his style....that is on the other hand very much in the legislature's wheelhouse, interrogating thieving chiselers is their thang.

Go for it guys! Cover this breathing earth, like a shitstorm out of hell!!!

Kavanaugh...

The US Senate, is pretty much the Republic's Reserve Army of Guilt & Bad Faith, thy waved thru twitchy weirdo Clarence Thomas onto the Supreme Court back in the day, and in the end they'll try at least, to wave thru Brett Kavanaugh regardless of his grotesque sexual escapades in Prep School.
They have no choice they have too many sins on their souls and too many mistresses or peg boys stuffed into the shadows to do otherwise.
I'm not surprised that Kavanaugh has a nasty near rape on his conscience, C.S. Lewis talks about "The Intoxicated Will", those gawd awful prep schools are nothing but vast incubators for class rule and power worship of a grotesque neo pagan variety.
Just remember at the end of the day, Brett Kavanaugh, glib, colonized & naively utopian is the worst possible jurist Trump could have nominated that could be reasonably expected to get confirmed...
On that basis alone he merits fighting to the last ditch to keep him off the court.
The fact that he may well be a drunken rapist is merely the surface manifestation of a larger deeper necrosis of the character.

I don't think its a good idea

for the Sunday Globe's Chief Foreign Policy Bloviator, Stephen Kinzer to refer to Ayanna Pressley & Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as a pair of jungle lionesses who are gonna shred up the US House of Representatives.  Its a really unfortunate simile IMHO coming from Morrissey Boulevard's notorious neo-appeaser and declinist.