Football Sunday is usually a boisterous day around these parts. SP is an animated and knowledgeable fan who won’t hesitate to scream at the announcers, the refs, and the fluffball sideline “reporters.” With her preferred hate-targets Jeff Triplett and Ed Hochuli gone, her ire now focuses more strongly on Joe Buck and Beth Mowins. “Please make her shut up. Oh my god, she’s awful. Why the fuck do they let this woman talk? Jesus christ, Joe, you’re a dummy! Who did you blackmail to get this job?” It livens up the games quite a bit. With her out of town, the only verbal excitement comes from the Wonder Dog, who barks constantly to protect us from anyone who might potentially urinate in our yard. And so far, it’s worked- none of the neighbors have dared burrow under the fence and let fly on one of our trees.

Today has two auspicious birthdays, one of them being the delightfully-named Hippolyte Fizeau, whose name has been tragically excised from the Doppler Effect. Maybe it’s because he was accused of groping a French teenager at a wine party? The other will be mentioned below.

And now the news, which unfortunately is totally dominated by the election Silly Season.

The Kavanaugh circus continues, now occupying all three rings. Team Blue promises to take action if Judge K is confirmed.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said that “as soon as Democrats get gavels”, the party will investigate the Kavanaugh allegations even if he is confirmed and sitting on the Supreme Court.“This is such bad practice that even if they were to ram this guy through, as soon as Democrats get gavels we’re going to want to get to the bottom of this,” he said on CNN.

“If the Republicans rush through a nominee where you have unanswered sexual assault allegations, I can promise you that Democratic senators will be interested in going and looking at those allegations, and if Judge Kavanaugh lied under oath, you could see a judicial impeachment, and that’s not good for anybody, so we should try and avoid that,” Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, said on “America’s Newsroom.”

What the saddest part to me is that any real objections to Kavanaugh (like his apparent disdain for the fourth and fifth amendments) have been totally ignored in this shitshow. It’s the equivalent of the Black Lives Matter bullshit appropriating the real problem of police abuse.

As part of the circus act, the PR machine is now spinning a more comprehensive narrative: Ford wasn’t just drunkenly groped one at a teen party, she was traumatized for life. Every professional and personal move she made from that time on was dictated and defined by the intense psychological trauma caused by that grope.

But after high school, and after the alleged assault, Ford left the Washington area and never moved back. She took up surfing. She dressed in jeans when she wasn’t in a wet suit atop a surfboard. Colleagues mistook her for a native Californian. Quietly, she garnered a reputation for her research on depression, anxiety and resilience after trauma — telling almost no one what she herself had endured.
Years later, Ford would describe college as a time when she “derailed,” struggling with symptoms of trauma she did not yet understand.
It was during Ford’s junior year when Goldstein, who now works as an English teacher in Japan, gave her the advice that would change the course of her life. “He said, ‘You’re really smart, and you’re just like totally [messed] up,’ ” Ford recalled. She remembers him saying, “ ‘What are you doing? . . . Everybody’s getting it together but you’re like not.’ It was kind of a harsh talk.”

In other words, the PR machine says that she’s a mentally unbalanced snowflake. Therefore she must be unquestioningly believed.

Team Blue’s #metoo moments still don’t seem to be getting much traction. But I guess it’s different if you’re a True Progressive.

Ellison, who serves as deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), decried Monahan’s story as “not true” and assured that an “ongoing investigation” will conclude that Monahan’s claims are false. He dismissed the medical record, saying it was written a year after his relationship with Monahan ended.

When pressed whether the investigation will be done before the election, Ellison said it’s an independent investigation and he remains uncertain about the timetable.

So if a medical record is written a year after an alleged incident, it’s no good. But if it’s twenty years after, it’s utterly reliable. Got it.

Thanksgiving dinner with the Gosar family promises to be entertaining this year.

Six siblings of U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar have urged voters to cast their ballots against the Arizona Republican in November in an unusual political ad sponsored by the rival candidate. The television ad from Democrat David Brill combines video interviews with Gosar-family siblings who ask voters to usher Paul Gosar out of office because he has broken with the family’s values. They do not elaborate.
“It’s intervention time,” Tim Gosar says in the ad, endorsing Brill. “And intervention time means that you go to vote, and you go to vote Paul out.”
“My siblings who chose to film ads against me are all liberal Democrats who hate President Trump,” [Paul] Gosar said. “Stalin would be proud.”

OK, I’ll admit that there are some entertaining aspects to this election.

Here’s a delightful video of our Real President, someone who totally eschews the bombast, self-promotion, and narcissism of Trump. Watch it if you enjoy being scolded for disappointing Big Daddy yet again. It’s inspiring and uplifting. Don’t you miss those wonderful eight years? Shouldn’t we get serious about repealing the 22nd Amendment?

OK, as you might have expected, today’s other birthday of note intersects with Old Guy Music. And even the title intersects this weekend. It’s intersections all the way down. Happy Birthday, Mr. C. Your art left this world a more beautiful place.