Ooh, look, another person unwilling to go under oath to attest to their knowledge.

Just like the accuser.

It is also quite telling, imo, that the accuser is the one requesting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to vet her claims, not the accused requesting vindication. That is your view, and you are entitled to it. My view is that she knows her story is full and holes and she might even have the wrong...

Since when is an uncorroborated (and explicitly denied) accusation "substantial evidence that the applicant committed a crime"? Also, another person named by Dr. Ford as being at the alleged party has denied it: "I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she...

Second, she and her lawyers have realized that her recollection of events is nowhere near good enough to back up her accusations, so they hope the FBI or some other law-enforcement agency will come in and confirm the stuff that Ms. Ford believes she remembers. When is the last time you've gone to t...

The local Maryland authorities would be facing the same facts as the FBI would be facing: a 36-year-old accusation where the only possible witnesses have diametrically opposite stories and the accuser cannot even recall where or when this supposedly happened.

The other is a criminal investigation to look into this exact situation, the FBI has opted not to conduct one due to lack of a federal issue and the expired statute of limitations, presumably. It's not helpful to mix these mechanisms up. Based on what I've read and understand, Maryland does not hav...

“Believes she remembers”? So your take is that she doesn’t know this happened to her, that she just thinks it did? Other people here have posited that she might be confusing Kavanaugh with someone else. I'm not discounting the idea that she might believe that Kavanaugh assaulted her. It is possible...

While Dr. Ford’s life was being turned upside down, you and your staff scheduled a public hearing for her to testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen U.S. Senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident. The hearing was scheduled for six sho...

The FBI already declined to conduct an investigation on the basis that the accusations do not implicate any potential federal crime.

Well, for one thing the aircraft in that video (both the fake CGI and real evacuation) is an Airbus A320, not a Boeing 737.

If you're going to go the defamation route, Kavanaugh is undoubtedly a public figure. Of the three people who were there, two have already denied it happened. Both of whom are alleged to have taken part to varying degrees in the assault. This is not super compelling. The public-figure aspect doesn'...

None of those even approach the level of coverage this will, as you well know. There also isn’t a huge time gap between the purported event and the reporting of it. But yes, we can go around and find stories of all sorts of things people do. I bet I could find stories of teenage boys who sexually a...

Just contact the local barber-surgeon and ask him to direct you to the nearest apothecary.

You’re glossing over the fact that her life will be completely exposed, she is fodder for every pundit, news show, and hockey forum, and will be reviled by a large group of people. Those things are certainties. That’s an awful lot of weight to put on a lie. The savior plot is very, very unlikely. P...

This is completely normal behavior for survivors of traumatic events. Not just something of this nature, but trauma, generally. I mean, this is sort of where the term 'triggered' kind comes from. Small details specific to the actual trauma often follow a person through their lives, even if they blo...

Yeah, certainly plausible. Although the “party” had only four boys, so not sure how much of a rager it was, or how long she’d been there. But why fill in the blanks with Kavanaugh? The only plausible explanation seems that she wants to take him down. That’s a lot of personal angst to bring on yours...

The Wash Post article goes into more detail on the beer issue: She said she recalls a small family room where she and a handful of others drank beer together that night. She said that each person had one beer but that Kavanaugh and Judge had started drinking earlier and were heavily intoxicated. So ...

Yes. You're thinking like a lawyer and not a psychologist
In fact you sound like your making a closing argument in a bad SVU episode.

I've heard a lot of people say "I don't remember" in a lot of ways. For many of them, they couldn't remember the details because they were lying.

And the person who has signed up to be the first commercial passenger to orbit the moon is Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa.

SpaceX announced a few days ago that they've signed up a passenger to fly around the Moon aboard one of the first launches of the BFR (which won't take place for quite a few years yet). SpaceX is going to announce the passenger tonight. The stream is also showing new renders of the BFR, which has a ...

I believe Ms. Ford's lawyer said she had been drinking, but was not drunk. Other credibility problems that I see, with quotes from this Wash Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-...

I've mixed up socks before, and even put on underwear inside out, but I don't think I've ever managed to put on two different shoes. :) Do you use shoe trees when you take off your shoes? They would help minimize those creases across the tops. I've used them for years and swear by them. Shoe leather...

I mean I hate to keep saying this, but we are not talking about Al Franken levels of groping or inappropriate comments, but an attempted forcible rape, sexual assault, with an element of something much worse with the part about the covering up of the mouth. I agree this is very different than Al Fr...

They still have to get the 50 votes, and to be honest, I would prefer another Gorsuch to a Cavanaugh. I'd prefer a judge with conservative principles than a political actor in the positon.

Are you misspelling his name on purpose?

Or, maybe just let another country take care of this incredibly vital mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atomic_clocks It's not just the atomic clocks, and I don't think the budget cut is actually for the clocks themselves. It's for the low-frequency AM radio stations that broadcast the...