Monday Reads

Bill Cosby goes to prison, but he still displays no remorse.
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It's back to Mom's basement for one infamous MRA.

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Obituary:  Famed Chicago bluesman Otis Rush, 84, died Saturday:

Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Otis Rush moved to Chicago in the late 1940s and quickly began to make a name for himself playing in South and West side clubs. He helped define a distinctive West Side Chicago sound that had a more fluid, jazzy style than the raw playing of the South Side.

Rush played left handed with his guitars strung with the low E string at the bottom and the high E on top. He'd sometimes put his little finger under the low E which helped him bend notes in ways few other blues men did.

"He got the sound that nobody else got," Clapton told NPR. "And there was something about that upside down style of playing like Stevie Ray has - or had. You can't do that if you're right handed. You can't make the guitar do the things that they were able to do. And Otis had that voice, too. I mean, just a powerful voice."

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This is why I call him "Brat Kavanaugh":

Details of the bar fight first came to light after Ludington issued the statement Sunday in which he vaguely referred to the incident.

'On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man's face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail,' Ludington said.

Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, described Kavanaugh as 'a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker' at college.

I think some of Brat's supporters, and Brat himself, confuse "temper" with "temperament" when it comes to fitness to sit on the USSC.
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Oh, and it gets better:

I applaud @SenatorCollins for her desire to get to the truth. She deserves our respect. https://t.co/4Hchkqj1PW

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) October 2, 2018

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Make of this as you will:

BREAKING: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will not teach at Harvard Law next semester, the school announced Monday. https://t.co/jcDvjqILUc

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) October 2, 2018

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Sorry, but I don't feel one bit sorry for entitled white males who have had their lives already planned out by high school graduation or college, make inflated pay, while the rest of us got stuck with the crumbs.

I quit giving a shit about them a long time ago.  They keep voting against their economic interests while they bitch and bellyache about women and minorities getting an itty-bitty bit of the economic pie.

I very much ran with the nerds during my own time at Yale, but I did encounter people like Kavanaugh — hard-partying sons of privilege who counted on their connections to insulate them from any consequences from their actions, up to and including abusive behavior toward women. And that kind of elite privilege still exists.

But it’s privilege under siege. An increasingly diverse society no longer accepts the God-given right of white males from the right families to run things, and a society with many empowered, educated women is finally rejecting the droit de seigneur once granted to powerful men.

And nothing makes a man accustomed to privilege angrier than the prospect of losing some of that privilege, especially if it comes with the suggestion that people like him are subject to the same rules as the rest of us.

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These sons of bitches should be arrested.  It's a goddamned crime.
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More about Brat:



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This is how we know Brat is lying.
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