9.30.2018

The Tell

Marcy Wheeler: "After complaining about how the nomination has destroyed his family, he accuses a shady, largely fictional, mirror image of the Right Wing Noise Machine of seeking revenge." Kavanaugh's tell being that the Clintons are avenging themselves against him.
The guy who insisted that–
I am strongly opposed to giving the President any 'break' in the questioning regarding the details of the Lewinsky relationship — unless before questioning on Monday, he either (i) resigns or (ii) confesses perjury and issues a public apology to [sexual assault cover-up expert Ken Starr].
That guy thinks the scrutiny of his own sexual past is just "revenge on behalf of the Clintons," plural. Not just Hillary for — as he explicitly mentions — "President Trump and the 2016 election." But also Bill Clinton, the man whom Kavanaugh demanded describe details of his use of sex toys and enjoyment of blowjobs under oath, and perhaps even Chelsea, the young girl who had to watch her parents be humiliated before the entire nation.

In spite of Kavanaugh's suggestion that this imagined campaign would have consequences for decades, his admission that it might be revenge means it must be revenge for something. For something done to the Clintons. Hillary. And Bill.
And he's foaming at the mouth, waiting to be where he can really punish all enemies.

Under Cover of Darkness

From the Times' description—
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.

But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

9.29.2018

We Return You to Our Scheduled Program

Just another campaign rally.

Strange Interlude

By way of a taking a break—from the year we just went through this week—I picked up the Berenice Abbott biography I had started. Getting up to Abbott's New York work in the 1930s led me to leaf through my copy of this.

A photo from the book (and that's on wiki)—
Something jumped out—to the left of the broom, in the window of this "Union Store"—

9.25.2018

Target Audience

9.24.2018

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