So yeah. Jane Mayer is a tool. C'mon. Christopher Steele's biography of a patriot? Also published by The New Yorker. (I've mentioned that before.) On the other hand, the NYT published its version of Ramirez's allegations about Kavanaugh's deviance,"misconduct" in the parlance of university adminstrators everywhere: In a Culture of Privilege and Alcohol at Yale, Her World Converged With Kavanaugh's, 25 Sep. This one I read.

This information prompted me to "share" some of my experience to elaborate the breadth of depravity that someone from a very similar socio-economic background might encounter. It is never too late to dispel "virtual integration" theories, for example, comity in freshman dorms, especially between roommates.

More interesting to me is Dr. Bernofsky's civic duty to promote judicial reform. Yeah, I went to the home page of "Tulane Link," unequaljustice.com. (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the United States best known for a pseudo-religious festival and internecine graft and miscegenation.) I imagine, Frank, for example, can best relate to abstract purposes of "judicial reform." Democracy on the march!

Two items stand out in Dr. Bernofsky's home page.

1. Bernofsky's petition to impeach Helen "Ginger" Berrigan;"Impeachable Offenses of U.S. District Court Judge Helen "Ginger" Berrigan"; and
   
2. a bill, S.2195, introduced by Mr Grassely to create an office of Inspector General in the judiciary branch. It has no, zero, co-sponsors.

That is news. In fact it never had occurred to me that there is no OIG in judiciary agencies. What a phenomenal "oversight" by the ancestors of this great nation. Why didn't they establish one for each breach? huh. Could it be that they couldn't foresee that self-regulation would cultivate "debt traps" in offices of trust? Corruption.

God only knows, evidently.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

When No Means Yes | The Harvard Crimson - Nov. 2010 |

On the night of Oct. 13 [cached], new pledges to the Yale fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon marched through the residential section of Yale's campus. The students, some blindfolded, chanted such revolting phrases as "No means yes! Yes means anal!" and "My name is Jack, I'm a necrophiliac; I fuck dead women, and fill them with my semen!"

Any remotely intelligent human being must recognize the inappropriate nature of those words, and I am certain that the impressionable DKE pledges would be mortified by their actions if they seriously reflected on them. However, the fact remains that bright men chanted misogynistic phrases that, intentionally or not, encouraged rape. The Yale Women's Center justifiably condemned the event as "hate speech" and "an active call for sexual violence."

Since then, members of DKE have formally apologized to the Women's Center for their actions. Two other Yale fraternities have condemned DKE. The Yale administration issued a formal statement promising to reprimand the leaders of DKE. Nonetheless, an instance of blatant sexual harassment affecting a large number of Yale freshman occurred in 2010 in one of the most open-minded universities in the country.

No matter how much we like to deny it, Harvard and Yale are very similar. Our students come from the same backgrounds, study the same subjects, and live and breathe in the same Ivy-League environment. As Harvard students, we should not shrug off last week's horrifying events as additional proof for why "Yale sucks." Instead, the DKE incident must serve as a warning to Harvard.  

○ Yale punishes fraternity for sexist chanting
○ Yale suspends Bushes' fraternity after sexist 'no means yes' chants

In another incident, in September 2009, the so-called 'pre-season scouting report' was issued via email in which a group of male students circulated a list of 53 female students ranking them in order of how many beers they would have to have before they slept with them.

And on January 2008, a group of pledges from the Zeta Psi fraternity surrounded the entrance to the Yale Women's Centre at midnight holding signs saying, 'We Love Yale Sluts'.

It is argued that this behaviour limited women's equal access to educational opportunities at the university and that there were 'inadequate responses' to the sexual misconduct.

○ Enough alcohol to call it rape? | Yale News - Nov. 2014 |

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From fivethirtyeight.com, seriously.

The USA is exhibiting all the symptoms of late stage imperial decline, including an utterly corrupt, incompetent, incontinent, kleptocratic elite...

Index of Frank's Diaries

○ Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre of Nobel scandal, jailed for rape | The Guardian |

The Academy has since admitted that it has known about at least some of the allegations against Arnault since 1996, but that it did nothing about them then, which has roiled tensions and caused rifts among members. According to Swedish news site The Local, six of the 18 members of the Academy have resigned or taken leave because of the scandal and several "regularly trade ugly barbs" in the press. In May, the Academy announced that in light of its "currently diminished" membership, and the general public's "reduced confidence," it would not be awarding a prize for 2018. Instead, two laureates will be announced in 2019. [Source: Vogue]

Three members quit Swedish Academy as row splits Nobel-awarding body | The Local  - April 2018 |

The Swedish Academy has been rocked by a series of rows over a scandal that emerged last year, when several women accused a man - who is not a household name in Sweden but has strong ties to the Academy and is a well-known figure on Stockholm's cultural scene - of sexual abuse and harassment.

It sparked a crisis on the Academy committee, which decided to cut all ties and funding to the man - who has been referred to as "the culture profile" in Swedish media - with immediate effect.

The Academy said at the time that it had potentially broken its own rules regulating conflict of interest and appointed a legal firm to investigate its committee members' ties to the man in question.

Renowned author Klas Östergren stepped down in the afternoon, followed in quick succession by fellow members of the Academy Kjell Espmark and Peter Englund.  

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LMAO great stuff ...

○ Kavanaugh warned friends of condo eviction in 1983 letter: 'We're loud, obnoxious drunks'

Original story in New York Times:

○ Kavanaugh's 1983 Letter Offers Inside Look at High School Clique

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Onion.com: Kavanaugh Impressed By Hazing Rituals Before They Let You Join Supreme Court

Senate Moves Toward Friday Showdown Vote on Kavanaugh's Confirmation | NY Times |

Judge Kavanaugh himself, in an extraordinary opinion article in The Wall Street Journal [Murdoch's rag], tried to reassure those undecided senators that he possessed a proper judicial temperament after his emotional defense in a highly charged public hearing last week. He attributed his delivery to his "overwhelming frustration at being wrongly accused."

"I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been," Judge Kavanaugh wrote in a piece that he conceived of himself. "I might have been too emotional at times. I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said. I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad."

Republicans said the F.B.I. had turned up no evidence to corroborate accusations of sexual assault and misconduct, and their chances were bolstered when two undecided Republicans -- Mr. Flake and Ms. Collins -- signaled on Thursday that they were satisfied with the F.B.I.'s investigation.

○ Critics claim there are `holes' in Christine Blasey Ford's story

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