On Judge Kavanaugh

Absolute proof that Kavanaugh is guilty will be impossible to find. We are told by his supporters, furthermore, that he is not that kind of guy, not the sort of person capable of abusing women. Well, I watched him yesterday, and he struck me not only as callow, bigoted, spoiled, opinionated, slippery, mendacious, and superficial. He struck me as immature, without gravity, a lightweight intellectually. And I got the impression that he was the kind of guy who would join and remain in that kind of fraternity we know he belonged to, the fraternity that habitually paraded women's underwear all over campus. He struck me as the kind of guy who would help to defame a woman in his yearbook comments (which, by the way, are incontrovertible evidence). He struck me as the kind of guy who, both in college (which is one venue) and in law school (which is a very different venue), was a notorious drunk, the kind of fellow who gets drunk because it allows him to lose control and gives him an excuse, if a frail one, for having done so. So, although I cannot prove that Judge Kavanaugh assaulted Dr. Ford, I most certainly can't agree that he is "not the kind of guy" who would do that kind of thing. He is exactly the kind of guy who would do that kind of thing.