A long time ago in a land far away there lived a tiger, who had been hunting for two long days. He was very tired, so he decided to lie down in the shade of a mango tree, underneath some cool foliage, and take a nap. He fell asleep.
Presently, he became aware that something sharp kept poking into his haunches. He opened one eye to see a little squirrel digging his claws in his side.
“Say, little squirrel, what are you doing?” asked the tiger, who was wise and could not fault the dimwitted rodent for poking a sleeping tiger.
“I’m feeling your muscles, to see how firm they are.”
“Well, little squirrel,” said the tiger, flexing his paw, “feel my arm and then go away. I have been hunting for two days, and I am tired. I want to sleep.”
So the squirrel felt the tiger’s muscle and said, “Thank you, Mr. Tiger. You’re very strong, but not as strong as the tiger in my glen.”
The tiger snorted, for it made no difference to him who was stronger, and went back to sleep.
Soon he was awakened to the feeling of his fur being rubbed the wrong way. He opened one eye. “Say, little squirrel, what are you doing? It hurts for my fur to be rubbed the wrong way.”
“Oh, no!” said the squirrel. “I’m not rubbing your fur the wrong way. I’m testing the resilience of the hair fibers.”
The tiger said, “Call it what you will—stop doing it.”
“Mr. Tiger!” cried the squirrel, even as he continued to stroke the tiger the wrong way, “why are you angry with me? I have done nothing!”
“You have awakened me, and you are rubbing me the wrong way. Please leave me to sleep, as I have been hunting for two days and I am tired. You have tested the resilience of my fur long enough now to know.”
“Well,” huffed the squirrel, “your fur isn’t nearly so resilient as that of the tiger in my glen.”
The tiger said nothing to that, understanding that the squirrel seemed even less clever now than he did before. “Go away, little squirrel. You are in my glen now, and I would sleep.” So he did.
It wasn’t long before the tiger awoke to find little squirrel-fists full of tufts of his hair being plucked. “Little squirrel,” said the tiger, beginning to lose his patience, “I thought I told you to leave me be. Did you not understand that I have been hunting, and I am tired? Do you not understand that I have been very patient with you so far, and that I could gobble you up if you anger me?”
“Well! I never!” pronounced the squirrel. “How dare you be angry with a little squirrel like me. I have done nothing to you that you should be so upset about!”
The tiger tried to be more patient, as it was clear to him that the rodent had no sense. “You have awakened me three times when I have told you of my wish to sleep, you have poked my haunches, rubbed me the wrong way, and pulled my fur out of my skin. How can you say you have done nothing? Begone, rat, before I eat you.”
The tiger saw that the squirrel was much offended by this speech. The squirrel replied, “Well, in any case, your fur is easier plucked than that of the tiger in my glen!”
“Then go torture him and leave me be so I can sleep.” And he did.
No sooner had he fallen asleep yet again when tiny rodent teeth bit down into the tender flesh of his ear. He awoke with a deafening roar.
The little squirrel scampered just out of reach and the tiger, rubbing his ear, said, “You really are not very bright, are you?”
“How dare you!” squeaked the squirrel as he danced an angry jig. “I have not lowered myself to calling you names! How petty you are! The tiger in my glen is not petty!”
The tiger, being wise and patient, would have ignored the rodent, but for the gleam of wicked intent he suddenly glimpsed in the eyes of the squirrel.
“You have been bothering me on purpose,” said the tiger slowly, seeing that the squirrel was not stupid—just disturbed and wicked. “To what purpose, I do not know, but on purpose nonetheless.”
“I have not!” said the squirrel. “I have been comparing you to the tiger in my glen! How dare you not let me perform my examination just because you are sleeping. You are out here in the open, at the mercy of just any squirrel! How dare you accuse me of bad things!”
“Well,” said the tiger thoughtfully, “did you get what you were after?”
“Oh yes!” replied the squirrel, gleefully, a look of triumph in his eyes.
“Good. Then you won’t mind if I—”
And the tiger gobbled him up—and finally got some rest.
Squirrels taunt my dogs every day because they know they can’t cross invisible fence.
First.
Lizards torment my dogs.
I find eviscerated lizard corpses in their yard periodically.
We had a squirrel that would strut down the rail of our deck until my mutt would come charging out and then he’d leap into a tree and chatter at the dog. I swear both of them enjoyed it and did it on purpose.
We have a 5-month-old Wheaton Terrier. The chipmunks chattering at him should enjoy the little time they have left.
Did you name it Will?
*narrows gaze*
Hey, that was kind of fun.
You’re right… I should have gone with Wesley.
Our squirrels drop hickory nuts on our dog’s head, while laughing hysterically.
I hate the little fuckers.
Needz moar air rifle.
They are actually illegal here. Un-fucking-believable.
There’s at least one squirrel in my neighborhood that throws acorns at kids playing outside.
I’m entertained by that little bastard.
Yeah, if you ever run into a bear shitting in the woods and he ask you – like he did to the uppity rabbit dissing him – if you have problems with shit sticking to your fur, don’t answer. I have it on good authority that when the rabbit responded in an obnoxious tone that he of course didn’t have problems with shit sticking to his fur, the bear just picked him up and wiped his ass with that stupid rabbit…
Yup.
SEE!
Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hM7iAkjk8
And it was the sweetest squirrel that he ever had
all stories were Tiger stories before Anansi stole them
I wasn’t the only one thinking of Gaimen.
Gaiman
you also seem to have misspelled Wheaten Terrier
Daaaaannnnggggg…
Is that a squirrel?
The instant a squirrel pokes you, kill it and get it over with.
When people show you what they are made of, take them at their word
Faaake.
No tiger is that patient.
Yeah, don’t screw with the man!
I don’t get it.
Uffda. It is simple. Protect your nuts when squirrels are around.
Sounds like you are calling all my ex-girlfriends squirrelly…
I wrote this long ago for a martial arts board I frequented who had a troll, and my compadres were, as we were taught to be, very patient before pulling out the banhammer.
Recent events put me in the mind of a whole bunch of gun owners who are not itching to go to war, but will.
When will they break?
Currently I am at the hosital with my husband who is having a scheduled surgery (not serious) and will respond as I can.
I’m reminded of another parable featuring frogs and a pot of water. (Maybe that’s a metaphor.)
We’re the frogs.
Oh that is what this is about. I assumed it was about golf
Fun (not the surgery… the fable) I pegged it as being about two or three timely things, and none of them were this. That means, as a fable, it works. I might tell it to my first grade cub scouts at our next camp fire.
“The lesson is, don’t bother me unless your tent’s on fire.”
I knew it could be applied to many things. That was up to the reader, which is why I didn’t preface it.
My karate compadres were a lot more patient than I would’ve been.
Cool!
I read the tiger as the Normal people.
Thanks, Mo, that was fun!
I hope your husband’s surgery goes smoothly.
Thank you on both counts!
I think it is great. And yes, it applies to all sorts of situations we are currently in.
Missing: a trans bluejay overheard the whole thing. Xe then TOTALLY OWNS the tiger in a salon dot com “essay”
That made me laugh out loud in my office.
I LOLd too.
Thank you CA. BTW, I love your moniker.
I feel as though every surgery is serious, unless they’re removing a wart or something.
The rule of thumb:
General anesthesia: serious.
Sedation or local anesthesia: less serious.
Uh oh. General anesthesia, so serious, I guess. He’s been through so many, all with flying colors, I rate them on a relative scale.
Statistically your husband took more risk driving to the hospital than the surgery poses.
I don’t think so.
The car-related fatality rate is 10.6/100,000 and the surgery death rate for adults aged 45–64 years is 8.9/100,000… but not every 45-64 year old is getting surgery every day, while most people in that group do drive every day, multiple times a day.
I’m seeing 1.25 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles
Well, one of things that make it serious is the risks of general anesthesia, which different people tolerate differently.
If he’s been under before and hasn’t had issues, that’s definitely a good thing.
My mom had over 30 surgeries ( several kidney related surgeries and 2 transplants) with general anesthesia, and now that she is older, there are definite signs that doing it so often is a problem.
I didn’t think having my gall bladder removed was serious, but when my wife had hers removed, I was a nervous wreck.
You should have had a doctor do it.
Yeah… Kent College had a rally pushing to allow students to carry concealed at the school. As it currently stands, the school bans students from having guns, but visitors can open carry weapons. So some students originally wanted to do a rally, which the school kept changing the rules for (permits, security, etc.). The students then decided to just do a march, which drew about 50 people open carrying. There were over 100 protestors there yelling at them.
It seems to me that if you really think the people carrying guns are as blood thirsty and dangerous as you claim, you wouldn’t intentionally antagonize them.
They aren’t very bright.
Speaking of patience, where is this guy? This is a fucking business meeting. His company wants to borrow money. 9am appointment mofo. I ain’t got time for this shit.
I went to meet with my brother’s new renter to collect the deposit and deliver keys. She had me waiting twenty minutes. Effing rude.
Later I went to a get-together thinking I’d be fashionably late but ended up early, and was put to work helping set up. Effing rube.
I walked out of a job interview once when they kept me waiting 15 minutes, on account of I had other shit to do that day. I think 15 minutes is enough time to wait for anyone, assuming they don’t contact you before their grace period has run to let you know why they are late, how late they will be, etc.
I did that too. I was on my lunch hour and had gone to great lengths to be there. They forgot it was that day and begged me to come back the next. I said no (even though I needed the job) with, “If I had done that, you would not have hired me.”
When I was job hunting I had one company schedule three different interviews with me and flake on them all. I stopped looking for positions at that company.
*snort*
I read that as “I whacked out of a job interview when they kept me waiting”. In my mind, I was picturing RC asking for a better magazine to toss off to.
When Mojeaux said she did it too, I figured my horrible reading skillz had gotten me in trouble again and went back and saw my error after sounding out all those big words in RC’s post.
I went to a job interview once where they didn’t know I was coming. After about a 10 minute delay, two guys showed up and interviewed me, but they didn’t really know what to ask. At the end of a very awkward interview they requested more samples of my work, but I never followed up. Clearly that company did not have their shit together.
Worst/Best job interview ever was when I was graduating from Memphis State. Some engineering firm asked me if I would be willing to do a lunch interview. I said sure. We met at a BBQ place that had a lunch buffet special.
My interviewer weighed at least 350lb and by the time the waitress had taken our drink order, it was clear that I was in no way qualified for the job. After that we just got down to gorging on free lunch BBQ.
Pretty obvious that the whole interview was just a sham so that Mr. Fatty could expense in a lunch.
Here, let me help:
“No. Have a nice day.”
We heard your pitch at 9:00. It gave us all the information we need to make a decision. We’ll be in touch.
My son’s pretty prompt; he probably tired of this story at some point:
Indy 500, Sunday before Labor Day, noon local time. If you aren’t there, they will fucking have it without you.
Can I hold it against you if you give me the wrong date?
Good catch.
I thought it was pretty quiet around there!
This is Yankee shit; I get that wrong a lot. I’ll stay in the F150 sandbox for the rest of the day.
I have five potential new clients this week. Aaaand one of them called 3 hours too early, one didn’t show at noon, but asked to reschedule, one at 3pm for a phone call, one tomorrow at 9am. Last is Thursday 1pm.
The one who didn’t show at noon has me pissed because I already looked up the file – bleah.
Nice story Mojeaux. No do a SugarFree version.
O.M.G.
Exactly!
No do a SugarFree version.
Correct.
Seriously though: good work.
Thank you!
“The lesson is, don’t bother me unless
yourmy tent’s on fire.”Mojeaux, am I misremembering in thinking you’re in publishing?
I am a publisher, yes. Not a successful one, by which I mean it does not the bills. Grocery money is all.
My main income is formatting ebooks and designing print book interiors, and helping self publishing authors through the process.
Do you suppose an English major and former teacher would make a credible candidate for editing work? Mom expressed interest in unretiring, but not to teach. She’s a prolific writer and serious grammarian, though, to my knowledge, she’s never been published.
Also: she’s an English major, not an education major. (Though I doubt it matters, this would have been back in the Pleistocene epoch.)
Eugh. My own proofreading may be disqualifying…
Sure. I occasionally get requests to edit which is not my favorite thing to do and proofreading even less. Email me her name at esb10 at b10mediaworx dot com and I’ll put her on my subcontractor list.
Thank you, I’ll do that.
Indy 500, Sunday before Labor Day
You can have any seat you want.
I immediately knew that this was about Kavanaugh.
Even if I’m wrong, I knew.
You’re not wrong.
“Do you ever black out?”
“Do you?”
“HOW DARE YOU! THAT’S SO DISRESPECTFUL!!!”
I have been on a few dates where I wished I could black out as she was rambling about her shoes, bags, and lipstick & nail polish colors…
You are so patriarchy.
So am I supposed to learn to just eat the squirrel first before he can keep escalating, or is that wrong?
Neat story, thanks for writing
It’s not prescriptive. You do you. 😀
You do you
These euphemisms!
Moral of the story: Forbearance only encourages further transgressions.
That tiger ain’t so tough.
The controversy has splashed over a midterm landscape that leaders of both parties have seen as generally favorable for Democrats, with Trump’s unpopularity driving a shift in some parts of the country, particularly suburbs, that voted for Republicans in 2016. Polls had shown that Kavanaugh was an unusually unpopular Supreme Court nominee, though he has enjoyed overwhelming support from Republicans.
The squirrels will rise up and take this country back, just you wait and see.
Trump’s unpopularity driving a shift in some parts of the country, particularly suburbs, that voted for Republicans in 2016
I don’t really see that. Why would Trump be unpopular to people who voted for him? It just doesn’t make sense.
Shhhhh!
That doesn’t fit the narrative.
Wishful thinking on their part.
^^^^SO MUCH THIS^^^^
Because they are mad that the poor people got some “crumbs”. Everyone knows that suburbanites are horrible people who hate inner city people.
Trump’s unpopularity
To be fair, Obama’s unpopularity for his first midterm did drive people to vote for Republicans. Per Gallup, in early October, 2010, Obama was 46% approve, 48% disapprove, with Trump at 42% approve, 53% disapprove.
What numbers were the GOP putting up vs. what are the Dems running?
Obama also had a shit economy and the Dems had rammed through the unpopular Obamacare.
One of the curious things about Obama is the gap between his personal approval rating and the unpopularity of most of what he supported.
Nobody wanted to admit they didn’t like him, because they didn’t want to be called racist.
And therein lies the strategy of modern Democratic politics.
Lol. My own father suggested I was racist when I told him I thought Obama was a bloviating dickhead.
“Well then, dad. It reflects pretty poorly on you, doesn’t it?”
“Wishcasting”.
This is a good story. I think it misses something, though. The problem is, when the tiger continues to indulge the squirrels, they eventually mob up and become a real threat to him.
The squirrels and blue jays in my yard squabble all the time but it’s the cardinals that keep them all in line.
The occasional visit from a red-tailed hawk sorts out all the petty squabbles in my yard.
More WaPo-
Some Republicans have skirted the issue of Ford’s credibility, instead focusing on accusing Democrats of sitting on Ford’s allegations until the final days before a Senate vote.
These people are so far up their own asses it’s mindboggling.
“There’s no reason to question the timing of these ‘revelations’! Anybody who tries to paint those last minute revelations as some sort of last-ditch effort to derail the hearings is just a partisan nutjob. Nothing to gain. NOTHING!”
I’m honestly torn between “Ford was a willing participant in a partisan hit job and knows Kav didn’t do it.” and “Ford was a dupe who has convinced herself that Kav tried to rape her and was used by the Dems to create a media circus and delay in confirmation.”
Neither is good look.
I think she’s entirely full of shit. I think she knows goddamned well that Kavanaugh did nothing to her.
I agree with this.
#metoo
The siren call of being hailed as a hero of the resistance was too much for her.
Why do you hate women?
I am willing to believe that she had some kind of awkward-to-bad sexual encounter with someone, which she very sensibly moved on from until she got into academia, where she was trained to regard it as a life-altering traumatic event. I seem to recall some things she has said that are consistent with this, something like “I came to see this as a sexual assault” or something along those lines. I am ready to believe that she reconstructed other memories to be consistent with this – her claim that she was traumatized, her grades and social life suffered, etc. etc.
I’ve seen this dynamic before, in person. What I can’t quite get to is a relatively benign explanation for is why she named Kavanaugh as her attacker. There might be a reason why she didn’t name him to her therapist, but it is curious that is one of the very few details she is crystal clear on now.
Sure. I can believe she was aggressively groped at some point in her adolescence. Part of the reason my wife rolled her eyes at Ford’s story is the fact that such an incident is pretty minor and hardly uncommon – but the vast majority of girls that it happens to shrug it off and move on. And it seems that Ford did exactly that, until the opportunity arose to use that story to become a #RESIST heroine.
And as far as her sob story about her grades at UNC suffering so much…..if that was the case, how did she get into UNC in the first place? Didn’t her grades in her last couple of years in high school suffer as well?
And it seems that Ford did exactly that, until the opportunity arose to use that story to become a #RESIST heroine.
I find it quite plausible that marinating in academic culture in the ’90s and ’00s brought her to reframe the incident as a traumatic assault. I’ve seen this happen in person.
My first girlfriend went through that in the late 90’s. She was going to college to become a Social Worker…
From Mitchell’s memo, she said her grades suffered at college, but never made such a claim about high school. Among other questions this raises, is, what were her grades in college?
Weren’t we told she liked to go to the beach and go surfing because of her traumatically induced fear of enclosed places? If she’s hitting the beach in college, might that have affected her grades?
Any surfer who’s ever been held under for more than a few seconds can attest to the instant panic it can generate. It seems to me that would eerily similar to the type of fear you might get from being pinned and and having your mouth covered with no hope of escape.
So, unlikely a sexual assault victim would be a surfing enthusiast as a way to deal with the trauma?
At least the ones who describe their fears of close spaces and the palpable feeling of being suffocated, yes.
I find it illuminating that she doesn’t know what “exculpatory” means. In social justice circles, there is nothing that is exculpatory when a victim class has been wronged. Their “truth” prevails over all. It’s a word that has no meaning to them.
Like Flake, you keep insisting that Ford is something other than a lyin’ ass bitch that deserves more attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OuiuolN1r4
What I can’t quite get to is a relatively benign explanation for is why she named Kavanaugh as her attacker.
Considering Ford’s behavior after the revelation–scrubbing her social media presence, the laughable polygraph test, lying about her fear of flying, permitting her therapy notes to be published*, implicating another woman in her accusation, then calling that woman’s mental health into question–she seems more like a motivated activist than a dupe.
*I just can’t think Katz etc. are so incompetent or malicious, they’d open themselves up to a malpractice claim by going behind Ford’s back with the release.
They have opened themselves up to malpractice claims and state bar discipline, so I am willing to believe they released the notes without her knowledge. I don’t think they did, though.
Well, and didnt Maryland last week say they’re willing to investigate, since its a state with no statute of limitations on sexual assault?
I think she just had to visit a police station, and file a complaint.
Odd that I havent heard that its been done.
They won’t file charges, Or even call for his impeachment from the bench. Because either of those things would open them up to discovery. If you’re claiming Kavanaugh is a sexual predator, but not demanding he be removed from the Appeal Court, you’re basically saying that you’re okay with sexual predators as federal judges, just not the top federal judges, or you don’t really believe your claims.
Ive pretty much already decided that while not all judges are sex predators, they’re perverse in some manner or other.
You know anyone else who wears long robes to work?
Home office excuse!
/runs and changes.
Priests…oh, I get it!
Hugh Hefner ?
Mola Ram?
the funniest analysis i’ve seen so far was Nicole Arbour imitating Ford’s little girl voice and stating that women only use that voice when they’re trying to get away with some shit.
Republicans have skirted the issue of Ford’s credibility
after the female prosecutor, this is the best thing they’ve done so far.
Also, how is it “skirting the issue of Ford’s credibility” to point out, over and over again, that none of the people Ford names as being present at that party say that they were in fact at such a party; how she can’t remember a fucking thing from the past two months; how she never named Kavanaugh to her therapist; that she won’t authorize the release of her therapist’s notes; that she knows she only had a single beer and Brett Kavanaugh attacked her but she doesn’t know where or when this party was or how she got to or from this party.
and apparently her boyfriend was at the party if it’s the July 1st party.
Probably the one party that you can be sure it wasn’t, is that one. For one reason: Squi lived in a townhouse, and Ford said it has a single-family house.
A townhouse nowhere near the Columbia Country Club, which Ford said was near the house where the party was.
A 6 person party means it was very likely one of the 6’s house. One of these houses must surely meet her description, right?
but the Dems are yammering on at the July 1 entry in Kavanaugh’s calendar, which was clear that the party was at Timmy’s (not Squi’s) house, which was the townhouse.
I know, I am circling back to Ford’s account. If I had to guess, this “party” took place at the house of the only person who is unnamed.
Part of the problem is her story shifts on how many people were actually there. She has gone from “four boys” to “me and four others” (not inconsistent) to four boys, her buddy Leland Keyser, and herself. The fourth boy has never been identified.
Unless it was the conveniently unnamed #4’s house, it seems like it would be an easy detail to fill in.
As I mentioned on the previous post, a further investigation that looks at her secondary claims that could be corroborated is likely to cast even more doubt on her story, so if the FBI does a broader investigation and reports that her grades were fine, her social was fine, nobody can recall any changes in her demeanor around the time of the alleged assault, etc., it is likely to further undermine her story.
Not with the squirrel contingent.
The audience is never the committed partisans on either side – they are unreachable with evidence, facts, logic, as they operate on base tribalism. The audience is the 1/5th to 1/3 of the country this is not a tribalistic partisan.
yup…as I keep saying: this is the only needle that can be moved
She earned an undergraduate degree in experimental psychology in 1988[4] from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] She received a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in 1991.[4] In 1996, she received a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California.[4] Her 1995 dissertation was entitled Measuring Young Children’s Coping Responses to Interpersonal Conflict.[12] In 2009, she earned a master’s degree in epidemiology, with a focus on the subject of biostatistics,[13] from Stanford University School of Medicine.[4]
when did she claim her academic performance suffered from the assault?
After graduating from U.N.C. in 1988, Dr. Blasey moved to California, where she earned graduate degrees from Pepperdine, Stanford and the University of Southern California.
getting some conflicting info off the net on her post-UNC academic history.
She got into UNC-Chapel Hill, which is one of the toughest undergraduate schools to get into – public or private – if you’re an out of state student (which she was). That’s all I need to know. If her grades suffered in high school as a result of the “attempted rape”, there’s no fucking way she would have gotten into UNC Chapel Hill.
Well, she did get a boost from going to a hoity-toity private school. Still, she managed to get into a whole bunch of graduate programs for someone whose grades suffered so terribly in her first two years in Chapel Hill.
I thought I had heard claims that it affected her grades and social life, but a quick scan doesn’t produce any specifics, just a general claim that it has affected her for her whole life, and a pivot to “doesn’t like enclosed spaces and can’t/doesn’t like to fly.”
And, of course, we know the bit about being afraid to fly is complete horseshit
experimental psychology
Found it!
I hate professional students.
Weird too that she likes to be around rape culture.
I know one woman who was roofied and assaulted in her early 20s. Despite being heavily drugged at the time, she remembers details of the event, the bar where it happened, what the guy looked like, the location of the apartment the guy took her to, his physical description, the name he gave her, the works. She never pressed charges because she’d been drinking beforehand and a.) couldn’t be sure that she had in fact been drugged, and b.) didn’t think the police would find her credible because of the circumstances. She never saw the guy again, so it never came up again, and in this town it could easily have been a senior midshipman who subsequently shipped out, or Navy enlisted on shore leave borrowing a friend’s place.
My wife had several close calls in the 80’s with older coworkers when she was fresh on the job in a graphic design firm, including one guy who came into a room where she was working alone, turned out the lights and announced “I could do anything I want to you right now.” She remembers every last little detail; when, where, who, and how. The why being pretty obvious.
I’m honestly torn between “Ford was a willing participant in a partisan hit job and knows Kav didn’t do it.” and “Ford was a dupe who has convinced herself that Kav tried to rape her and was used by the Dems to create a media circus and delay in confirmation.”
I think she goes in the “Cindy Sheehan” file; mostly a dupe. They’ll drop her like a hot rock as soon as she is no longer useful.
But, Sheehan was at least addressing a serious issue.
Which is not to say that sexual assault is not a serious issue, but absent evidence or even a single corroboration, it’s difficult to say such an incident occurred.
Yeah. We can at least verify that Sheehan lost her son.
I don’t consider the “sexual assault” Ford alleges to be a serious issue. As I’ve stated previously, I’m a mother who would mete out justice should one of my off-spring be wronged. This would rank no more than a stern conversation with the aggressor and their parent(s).
Ditto… and I have 3 daughters.
Something like what Ford alleged happened to my sister in high school (i.e. two drunk guys horsing around, starting a tickle fight, and trying to cop a feel in the process). My sister told my mom about, not because she was traumatized, but because my mom wanted to know why she all of sudden didn’t want to invite so-and-so to her graduation party. Wasn’t a big deal. However, my dad found out. And then my dad told my sister’s boyfriend. My sister’s boyfriend drove back to Cincinnati from Indianapolis that night (he was in a baseball tournament up there), found out where this guy was hanging out, went to to where he was, walked right in the house, sought him out, and promptly picked him up and slammed him onto a ping pong table, and let him know that if he ever heard about him pulling shit like that again with my sister or any of her friends, he’d fuckign kill him.
Three years after that incident, my sister’s boyfriend asked my dad for his daughter’s hand in marriage. My dad said “Are you kidding? I should be asking you to be my son-in-law”. My brother-in-law is a pretty cool guy.
BINGO! I kept saying this – what normally happened in these cases is the girl would smack the guy groping her, and frequently there would be a brother or boyfriend out to kick the guy’s ass.
Yeah, I think the details of the accusation get lost in a lot of the noise surrounding this whole shitshow. Drunk teenage boy gets teenage girl alone in bedroom on a bed, jumps on her and gets handsy, friend dogpiles on top, girl leaves and has vapors. To me this sounds like horseplay of the sort that used to happen all the time when I was in high school; guys (and girls) would get a little tight, monkey around with each other in a house without parental supervision, and hope that they wound up making out with someone in a dark room. Idiot friends would think it was funny to pick that moment to jump on the bed, or the girl (rarely the guy) would take exception to things getting a little too fresh, and everyone would kind of drift off. This isn’t sexual assault so much as a horny teenager who needed to be sprayed down with a garden hose.
Clearly that company did not have their shit together.
That might well be correct; I do advise caution, though: every eighth day or so, Ted Williams went 0 for 4; Trump only had 1 chance in 4 of winning; I find a cracked egg every fifth or six dozen. People are messy, imperfect machines; firms and processes are made of people. I got this way after a lot of statistics, measuring operations, and wading through everyone’s confirmation bias for three decades.
Did that batch meet spec? Um, well: the quart we took to the lab was within limits as tested, but that sample was dipped out of a 2,000 gallon vat; how much of that batch will ultimately contribute to a very off-spec bottle being filled….that’s a career right there.
538 recently published the run gap by inning that tells you when a baseball game is safely thought to be over (CL = 95%, one presumes). That’s neat analysis, BUT: that also tells you exactly when to leave if you never want to see a historic comeback. Baseball is about loyalty: you stay for love, not for perfection; jobs are different: it’s an arm’s length transaction to hire in or, for that matter, to go back each day. Just remember: the perfect firm doesn’t need you much; there isn’t much upside in that.
If my interviewed started very late, I’d make a note of it, finish the interview, and weigh the tardiness with the rest of what I learned.
I always open the eggs in the grocery store.
My cracked egg count has gone to nearly zero.
+ Mom’s lessons….
You still found that cracked egg, you just adjusted content before bringing it home…
I like the cardboard cartons for that reason – just run your fingers down the eggs to see if they move. If they’re cracked they get welded to the cardboard.
Cis-ShiTlorD alert!
I know, I’m such an alpha-male, just goddamn dripping testosterone.
(I really like eggs and buy a lot of them)
However the Kavanaugh nomination works out, the next Trump nominee will be a raging partisan who doesn’t care if he/she is called a serial gang rapist, because who else would take the fucking job.
I’m waiting for them to call me.
I promise to write all my decisions in nothing but internet memes.
And to show up to the SCOTUS wearing nothing under the robe? That’s my kind of SCOTUS lawyer. Except I pass on seeing any o the SCOTUS ladies without clothes until I need to go on a diet.
I drank beer in college so I’m disqualified.
I drank beer before, I still drink beer.
-Nephilium
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.
-mitch
Mitch was the best. Miss him.
I had several ladies that got too loud an necessitate my hand on their mouth so the whole world wouldn’t know they where, erm, having a good time…
When I lived in a paper-thin wall apartment, once the GF got too loud the upstairs neighbors would run downstairs and bang on the door
That makes no sense.
if your loving turned on your neighbors so much, why would they run downstairs and bang on your door? Wouldn’t it be far easier for them to stay in their own apartment and bang in their bed?
Say, what’s Roy Moore doing these days?
That’s Judge Roy Moore.
I like the way you think.
No. The next Trump appointee will be a female religious zealot who will be subjected to religious tests while so-called civil libertarians continue to beclown themselves by not calling out obviously unconstitutional questioning.
The presidents of both Notre Dame and Princeton chastised Democrats for their obviously illegal religious questions. The ACLU could not be reached as they were debating what other part of the Bill of Rights they should ignore
The Mousse King just came in with a huge “TO BE SURE”
One lasting impact of the Trump era will be how many so called “civil libertarians” have fully discredited themselves all in the name of #Resist
In what way was he evasive? He didn’t deny drinking and he didn’t deny getting drunk. What he denied was the accusation that he was frequently “blackout drunk”, something that is pretty uncommon.
Robby’s just parroting the leftist lines and trying to get them to see his point of view by drawing similarities between them and him. “Yeah, I get it that those GOP guys suck man, but dude, have you thought about this?”
It’s a failing strategy that, contrary to what he believes, will win him no converts and certainly no love from the left. It also concedes points that simply aren’t relevant nor true.
Conservatives in the true sense of the word, like the writers at TOS, are apt to parrot popular narratives and uphold institutions as infallible.
It’s not surprising to see Soave believe shaky narratives pushed by a news media establishment whose credibility can fall no further. The conservative always exults institutions above all else.
It’s just another one of those “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” moments. How many references do we see being made, with 100% certainty, that Kavanaugh was “evasive” or even that he outright “lied”? Why? Because of a very questionable parsing of a few comments in his high school yearbook and a straight-up misleading characterization of his testimony.
I looked at my senior yearbook over the weekend. It’s still on a shelf in my parents’ house where I left it two decades ago. Guess what? There are references I made in there that I no longer have the faintest idea what they mean, because they were ultimately insignificant inside jokes referring to things at least 24 years in my past.
“Russia hacked the election”
There is a religious zeal that one needs in order to accept narratives that crumble under the smallest of scrutiny.
These people are supplanting logic with religious dogma. And it’s disturbing
My folks still have our yearbooks, too. Last time I flipped through them, the only thing I remember thinking was “Holy shit, we had a lot more hot chicks than any small town high school has a right to. WTF was I thinking, not dating a lot more than I did?”
hot chicks …. small town
#MeToo but they’re more like sisters or cousins in a small town; christsakes, I remember them picking their noses. Now that blonde who transferred in freshman year: the other guys never had a chance.
We had some stone-cold foxes (well, the all-girls sister school of ours did anyway). Unfortunately, they wouldn’t have spoken to me at gunpoint in high school.
For that reason I rather enjoyed spotting one of them at the YMCA not too long ago looking pretty rough. Still has a decent body, but that face, boy, a 40 year old should have a bit more tread left on the tire than that. More lines and wrinkles than a topographic map of the Himalayas.
Chip — just remember, there’s no yoga pose for the face.
Heh.
I’d still give her the most exciting 30 seconds of her life, but only with the lights off now.
“Please provide a detailed daily summary of your drinking in college.”
“That was a long time ago, not sure that I recall a lot of the details.”
“EVASION! LIAR! RAPIST!”
“I have had a lot of drinks since then.”
The “have you ever blacked out” thing sets me right on tilt. Of course he did. He’s an adult man. At least once in his life he has had so much to drink that he doesn’t remember large chunks of the evening, or at least didn’t until a few days later. This is one of those shitty little lies that people are supposed to tell each other in professional or polite settings; everyone is supposed to pretend they can count on one hand the number of times they’ve caught a buzz, or they’ve never looked at porn, or they’ve never pigged out on cake or ice cream, or they’ve never said or thought something bigoted. Yes, bitch, he’s blacked out. So have you. So have most of the people in the fuckin’ room. So has most of the television audience. Shit, some of them are blacked out now, or plan to be later.
I have never blacked out. I’ve gotten shitfaced puking drunk, to the point where I can’t walk. But I have never blacked out. Instead I can replay my stupidity – actions, words – with great, great clarity the next hungover day.
It’s like a really bad super power.
My wife, on the other hand, forgets what and where when she drinks too much.
I’ve never blacked out, either. I’ve never wondered what I did the night before, or had people describe me doing things that I just don’t remember at all.
I did it once. I don’t think it’s that common except for actual alcoholics.
” I don’t think it’s that common except for actual alcoholics”
Ut-oh.
I know a lot of people who woke up at home and aren’t 100% on how they got there at some point in their lives. “Blacking out” doesn’t mean you have eight hours of your life that you cannot recall whatsoever, it just means that, at some point, you don’t remember part of the night, not counting the bits where you were unconscious. They made a movie or ninety about it. One was called, “The Hangover”.
The hangover involved ruffies or some other date rape drug. I was part of the punch line.
Eh, maybe it’s splitting hairs here, but “blacked out” means you have absolutely no memories from an extended period of time. When I said it happened to me only once, that’s what I was saying – I literally did could not remember a single thing about a period of a few hours. Yes, there have been many occasions on which I was drunk enough that my recollections of that night are kind of a blur – memories are fuzzy, I did things that I can’t explain, other people remember things differently than I do – but I DO remember the night. The one time I blacked out, I remember nothing. Even after being shown the photographic evidence of some of the things that happened, it didn’t jog my memory at all. It was still a complete blank.
Considering who I was drinking with (a now-deceased friend who I loved dearly but who was a lunatic that was into pretty much every drug under the sun at one time or another), I will not rule out the chance that he gave me something unbeknownst to me.
It can’t be both?
That’s true. I would consider Kavanaugh more of a partisan than Amy Coney Barrett, but your point stands. It may be that at this point anyone nominated by Trump for that seat will have already decided that the only way they will win confirmation is by behaving like a partisan
“How dare you!” squeaked the squirrel as he danced an angry jig. “I have not lowered myself to calling you names! How petty you are! The tiger in my glen is not petty!”
“I’m just asking questions.”
So Mojeaux, are you going to do the fable of the ant and the elephant next?
#Ibelieveher!
Michael Moore says his ex-wife’s lawsuit against him is a malicious end-run around a sealing order in their ongoing Michigan arbitration case filed to “smear” Moore in the press, according to new court documents.
This will be an interesting case. Do you have to believe the woman? Or do you have to believe the one with the largest, floppiest breasts?
Jeff Flake represents all that is wrong in Washington, so I’m glad he gets heckled by woke progressives. When you give in to a mob, you get more mobs.
https://twitter.com/SpencerBuell/status/1046780928872386560
Just a reminder on votes that Jeff Flake didn’t struggle with:
– voting for Gina Haspel
– voting to renew the data collection program
– voting against a resolution to condemn the US’s participation in the starvation of Yemen
– voting for the most recent budget
I’m still astounded he was too chickenshit to call those women out. The man isn’t running for reelection.
There were any number of ways to handle them, but if you’re afraid of a little bad press, you’re going to lose any way you proceed.
According to woketarians, Flake is the “libertarian center”. Which I guess means virtue signaling about spending before voting in favor of big spending increases.
If he’s the libertarian center, libertarianism is a meaningless exercise in virtue signaling, just shut it down.
Agreed.
Unfortunately, some enjoy virtue signaling far more than principles
https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/29/jeff-flake-and-the-hatedyet-vitalliberta
https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1045724499704991745
That’s nice, too bad you’re watering down your support of individual rights with a lack of respect for due process by lumping Kavanaugh in with Cosby and Weinstein.
Libertarians should be condemning Kavanaugh based on principles. Running with a conspiracy theory is a good way to show that you’re playing a team sport instead.
I don’t understand how people don’t get this.
If President Trump was impeached for making peace with Russia would that be just the same as President Trump being impeached for waging war without congressional authorization?
If we’re playing the “end justifies the means” rule of play than you are conceding that you don’t actually hold any real principles.
Fundamentally, the LP is guilty of trying to ride the wave of popular sentiment instead of staying true to principle. For that, they should be condemned and cast aside. The point of a third party in our current system is to provide a philosophically sound alternative to the necessary political compromises of the major parties.
Sarwark is a damned joke, Reason and Cato are lost causes. Niskanen isn’t even on the map. Who’s left, other than us apparent misanthropes?
Yes. A libertarian condemnation of Kavanaugh would have fuck all to say about Ford. It would begin and end with his dismissive attitude towards the 4A and police powers in general. That would be an entirely respectable argument to make. Why are they unable to do that? Because they think that the media cool kids will like them more if they ape the lefty style.
SN: “the LP is guilty of trying to ride the wave of popular sentiment instead of staying true to principle. For that, they should be condemned and cast aside.” I saw a post on a state Libertarian Party FB page (not by the party itself, but the post wasn’t criticized) condemning people who rejected Bill Weld. The argument was that “Weld could get elected.” Dispensing with whether that is true, it pretty much says all you need to know about some libertarians.
“Who’s left, other than us apparent misanthropes?”
Mises.org
With Bill Weld as the nominee it will be hard not to conclude that the Libertarian Party is actually the “conservative” party. With the Republican Party being the “populist” party.
There’s really no other way you can slice it. Bill Weld is the epitome of conservative, in the true sense of the word. The definition that Hayek used to criticize conservatives- not the political definition created by Buckley in the 1950’s.
I’d second that the Mises Institute was still good. Also Scott Horton’s Libertarian Institute. Pretty much anything primarily funded by the Kochs has crapped out and is now just conservative.
Uh, what?
As I said this morning, I’m half tempted to believe the whole elevator confrontation was staged. If not, the Senate has terrible security and some fanatic is going wonder in like they did and kill a Senator.
Of course it was. CNN was there at the elevator broadcasting it live.
they pulled that shit with Graham too but he doesn’t play that.
“i’m sorry, call the police.”
In fifty fucking years they haven’t been able to come up with another chant.
It’s such a happenin’ scene, even Karla Marx was there.
Why is Flake in Boston anyway?
On his way to/from New Hampshire. He actually thinks he’s got a shot at being President.
Not after this shitshow he doesn’t.
Is he really that stupid?
I knew that, but it still doesn’t explain why he’d make an appearance in Massholia, a state that will not help him one iota in pursuing his ludicrous goal of running for president.
Yep, he should just keep heading north. That Charlie Baker endorsement isn’t worth anything.
Ah, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake spoke Monday at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit in Boston
Featured Speakers Include Cardi B, John Kerry and Steve Case
Hard pass.
Cardi B, so you know it’s a very serious event.
Well, she dont dance now, she makes money moves.
Jeff Flake Isn’t A Truth-Seeker, He’s A Coward
He don’t want nobody, nobody sent.
https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/1046825001641500672
Not all accusations can be accepted on faith alone.
Oh, so refusing to release relevant evidence to investigators is a problem? Gee, someone should ask Amy Klobouchar what she thinks about that.
But…but…
HER DAD’S A LUSH YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!
/proggie
Wow. The double-standard didn’t take long.
Also, as I read the parable I got the sense there was going to be one outcome.
I dont get it. They hypocrisy and lying by the left is so transparent and over the top, yet they still have popular support? The allegations against Cavenaugh are plainly a political hit job aimed at denying Trump another SC pick. Why does anyone take any of those allegations seriously? Everyone seems to get lost in the weeds, picking apart details and aspects of the allegations. In any other situation people would detect the lie and dismiss it with less than a tenth of the reason we have for dismissing these. It’s just nonsense. The whole thing is a farce, yet here we are.
A lot of people don’t care that it’s a farce. They hate Trump and they hate the idea of a conservative court. By any means necessary applies and that means you #believeher
I think there’s also a contingent of people who only casually follow this stuff at a surface level, maybe they see some CNN on at the airport waiting for a flight, or they catch the news for an hour at the gym, who, lacking much interest or knowledge of how government or politics work see this and think, “Well, yeah, if people think he raped somebody they should investigate it.” And they just never really take it further. Same people who just kind of think poor people who work should be paid more because it’s expensive to rent an apartment, so they vote Democrat, or who think it’s important to have a strong army because there are terrorists out there, so they vote Republican, and give it no more thought than that once every four years.
Mojeaux – thanks for the parable!
Reminded me of this Patricia Neal quote from “In Harm’s Way”:
The smiling young lady from Niger. She rode on the back of a tiger. And after the ride, she wound up inside, with her smile on the face of the tiger.
You’re welcome and thank you for reading!
I have to give Trump an attaboy for calling out that lying sack of shit Dick Blumenthal.
Trump then called out a few Democrats by name. On Sen. Blumenthal, Trump said, “For 15 years he said he was a war hero…He never went to Vietnam.” “Here’s a guy [who] lied and now he’s up there talking like he’s holier than thou,” Trump said.
I think Trump was well served by keeping his yap shut last week, and should give that plan another week before he gives it up.
For the most part. He shouldn’t say much of anything specifically about Kavanaugh or Ford, but I doubt that taking shots at the likes of Spartacus or Blumenthal is ever going to be a problem.
Booker’s been rather quiet since his own groping revelation made the news.
Blumenthal lied about that and he’s still in office? now that is surprising.
Because Connecticut. To be completely accurate, he never claimed to be a war hero – that’s just Trump blustering – but he did say he was a Vietnam vet, as even the NYT admitted.
Tom Harkin is another one who was a phony Vietnam vet.
Tom Harkin — Living shitstain from Iowa. I was truly embarrassed by having him as a Senator.
There were a lot of guys that fought tooth and nail to keep from going and then kept their mouths shut for a decade afterward until the country grew a conscience and stop blaming vets for that war. That’s when they stepped forward and wrapped themselves in the war-hero mantle.
These are the worst kinds of people – craven cowards and liars.
I am sure every war produces them.
Any bets on when the Dems will trot out the latest accuser?
Today seems a little early, I would think Thursday would be a little obvious as to its last-minute timing. I’m thinking Wednesday.
i don’t see any new accusations. at this point, their game plan is likely to get more sworn statements to assassinate his character. get another ex-roommate from Yale to talk about his drinking problem.
Grassley has already requested a criminal investigation of one accuser. I would think that would chill people piling on with sworn statements that aren’t actually, you know, true.
I don’t think that quibbles about high school injokes or whether he was an enthusiastic drinker or a heavy drinker in college will move the needle. To win a vote, the Dems will need a bombshell. To get more delay, they will need new accusations with at least a veneer of credibility; more than their last two tales about dick-waving and train gangs.
Tomorrow. That way it can build up steam over a couple days and they can REEEEEEEEEEE about extending the investigation.
Today they are going to fixate on how Kavanaugh lied about what “boofing” means. Tomorrow they’ll roll out the new accuser with as much corroboration as Ford has.
And the facts still won’t matter to some. What matters is that one has “faith alone” in the narratives that support their ideology.
Seen at Ace of Spades: combing through Kavanaugh’s yearbook and making a huge deal out of silly, meaningless words shall now be known as Booferism.
This was a really great parable, Mojeaux. I enjoyed it.
Best wishes for hubby’s surgery.
Thank you and thank you. He came through with no problems.
He came through with no problems.
So prostate surgery?
*Seriously, hope he has a speedy recovery.
I recognize that the afternoon lynx won’t be available for a while, but I have an appointment so these will have to suffice for now.
http://archive.is/wNKi3
Number 2 vavavoom.
You ever black out? Or as I call it, time travel? You ever do that? Oh yeah! You know how it is — you’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in another bar. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re playing that knife game with a half-Indian somewhere in North Dakota, “Yeah! Yeah! Winner fixes the tranny! Yeah”. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in White Castle — working there 3 years, STILL not assistant manager. Your buddies tell you to quit, but you can’t ’cause you’re banging the slow girl on the fry-o-later. They say she’s a little retarded, but those titties ain’t retarded!
-Dave Attell
Dave Attell is a national treasure.
Didn’t Amy Schumer steal this joke as part of her Netflix special?
Probably. But, I think hers had to do with her vagina blacking out or something that just made the joke bad and cringe worthy
Once you go black out, you never go back out.
BTW, although I know few here will need a reminder of what a sham this all is, here’s just such a reminder.
BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Treacher is on fire
I use to read the Daily Caller just for Treacher’s columns. Then he went full anti-Trump during and after the primaries and I think he had a falling out with the Daily Caller over it. I still read him, but now he writes for PJ Media or something.
Whatever, the guy is hilarious.
Yes, he parted company with the DC over Trump and is still very funny.
Yes. But, his anti-Trump sentiments were not just bold pronouncements like “literally Hitler”. He opposed Trump for very rational reasons and the fact that Trump behaved like a buffoon. There was an early bit of anti-Trump writing among some conservatives before the results of the election that was really good.
I even started reading the WSJ because their opinion section was largely anti-Trump, but it was rational in its opposition. It pisses me off that most of that stuff isn’t written anymore. Most conservative writers have either come to embrace Trump or have just become full-on progressives or, in the case of George Will, now call themselves libertarian but still support the most statist policy on every issue.
Treacher, I don’t think, ever came to support Trump, but he also never became a progressive or a phony like Will. I think that’s why the Daily Caller got rid of him. They had no idea what to do with him, because he didn’t do what everybody else did after the election. He remained very conservative, but very critical of Trump and his supporters.
I am really looking forward to voting against the inevitable LP ticket: Weld/ Flake 2020
We need experienced politicians to take the LP and the message of liberty to the next level.
USSC won’t take beach case
“There is simply nothing unripe about having the government in your backyard or strangers on your property.”
Want a private beach? Buy your own remote island.
In the US the high water mark of navigable waters is public property. That doesnt mean private land owners are required to give access, it means everything you have access to by canoe from the ocean.
So IANAL, but maybe someone here can tell me if this guy has the correct definition of corroborates.
TLDR; Because she can name some people K hang out with, high school kids in the 80s drank, there are other accusers, etc., it corroborates Ford’s story. He includes discredited Yale/Yale Law mix-up and Trump ‘limiting’ investigation as evidence.
TW: unrolled, long twitter rant.
The proggies are eating it up and tweeting it to senators, FBI, and the like.
Corroborating evidence—evidence that tends to support a proposition—already exists.
That’s a pretty weak definition of corroborating evidence. Let’s see how he does:
Bzzt. “May have met her” does not corroborate “knew” her. Merely says its possible. If a statement is corroborated by anything that does not make the statement impossible, then we have defined corroborating evidence down to nothing. “Not impossible” =/= “tends to support”.
I’ll allow it.
And, pari passu, Ford’s omissions can corroborate Kavanaugh’s denial if they are suspicious. Right?
At this point, he goes on at great length to “corroborate” something that is not controversial – Kav and Ford likely knew each other, and it was a party culture at private schools in the area.
Stolen base here. It is claimed that Judge’s girlfriend confirms he spoke of committing sexual assault while drunk. Non-specific as to whether Kav did this, and inadmissable as hearsay. Plus, note the conclusory nature of the statement – I doubt Judge ever told his girlfriend he committed sexual assault while drunk.
Let’s cut to the chase – any corroboration of the claim that Kav was sexually aggressive while drunk?
That’s right, the dick-waver and the train-puller.
If that’s all you’ve got, go home already.
Oh, one more:
No, she did not. She was not sworn in by a tribunal, and did not use the proper form for “self-swearing” (only admissable in DC when the affidavit is given overseas).
Oh, I would note that Kav’s Yale classmates can’t corroborate his drinking habits in high school.
That is one hell of a lot of words to say “We dont have anything.”