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The Dekes where I went were complete tools. I know because they tried to sign me.

 

That seems to be the Bolivian president's point, yes.

 

The issue is Kavanaugh presenting the calendar as if it is some sort of valid evidence. This is a judge and nominee to the Supreme Court trying to pass of the ridiculous idea that the calendar he filled out at the time proves anything.

 

She appears to be non-committal on whether Kavanaugh assaulted/raped her. She does not accuse him of rape. Says he was in a line of aspiring rapists and that he facilitated the drinking that preceded the attack.
At any rate, the only person this helps is Kavanaugh. Trumpists will whine about the late nature of the accusations. They will be mad not at their boy but at those damned women who are part of a smear campaign orchestrated by Democrats.
It merely amps up rhetoric from McConnell’s disgusting speech from yesterday, which apparently helped quell any potential angst. Next development: Manchin flips.

 

Me too. It's on a bookshelf in the living room. I rarely break it out, but it's there. I think I have a couple of calendars from that era in a box somewhere, as well. They haven't seen the light of day in years, but they're in there with a bunch of mementos I didn't want to throw away.
People treating the calendar as if it's some mark of the weirdo beast puzzle me. People throw all kinds of stuff in a box and forget about it for years or even decades. My mom told me last night that she found a couple of drawers of old pictures from God knows when, and she's moved several times since I left the house 20 years ago. Kavanaugh's calendar was probably in a box in his or his parents' attic forever, and when all of this came up he likely said, "Hey, can you go through those and see if there's anything there?"

One thing I did hear about the calendar yesterday, and it was only in passing, was that it indicated he was out of town for several stretches during that period. That's why the exact date (or at least the month and year) is so important. If Kavanaugh was out of town on vacation or something, there might be pictures or other proof on his end that he couldn't have done it because he wasn't there.
I'm not as hung up on her remembering the exact date, time, etc., but she should at least be able to piece some other key life events together to give a timeframe. Like, "Well, it was a couple of weeks before the end of school, so it must have been May 1982." Or, "The party was after a big basketball game and it snowed a couple of days earlier, so it had to have been January or February."

 

I'm more disturbed that high school yearbooks are being digitized and made widely available online. I thought that haircut of mine and the three gallons of hair gel it took daily to support its structure was going to be forever buried deep in the bookshelves of homes and forgotten.

 

If I’m in charge of a private school, I pull every damned yearbook from any cooperative site. Now.

 

Although there being no copyright on old yearbooks came in VERY handy as a small-town sports editor when doing look-backs and profiles and needing art.

 

I was on yearbook in high school, and I can assure those entries were actually fucking edited.
If not by the team then by the teacher.
I am surprised what got through the gate on Kavanaugh's and others' entries.

 

The only thing finding my appointment book from 1987 proved is that I still owe people money.

 

I looked through my senior yearbook a few years ago.

My biggest takeaway was that I don't remember ANY of those people.

 

I am actually shocked that so many people roughly my age had appointment books while in high school. I always knew when FB and basketball practice was and in off season when weight lifting was scheduled. Other than that I was at the local Y or at my playground. At night we might have some beers in the off season but I certainly didn't need a book to remind me.