By Erik Dolson
I’ve spent some time trying to find out why Tom Cantrell’s comments on Kavanaugh did not get posted when submitted on October 3rd (See comment here). I’ve discovered two possibilities, but nothing definitive in the time I’ve spent so far (until 1:30 am this morning, and again since 6 a.m.).
The first is that we use an automatic spam blocker called “Akismet.” It filters comments and automatically puts … Read more…
by Erik Dolson
During the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing, retired newswoman Connie Chung wrote a remarkable letter to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford who had come forward to describe a decades old assault by Kavanaugh.
Chung empathized with Ford after Republican men on the committee, and the president, implied the assault could not have occurred as she remembered it, in effect saying: “This didn’t happen or you would have … Read more…
By Erik Dolson
Unbelievable.
The awful words; the sneers; the mocking of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford by the President of The United States. What a execrable little man.
That was obvious long ago, when he mocked a disabled reporter; by his use of disparaging nicknames; lying to the nation about affairs even as he was paying $130,000 to a woman he had sex with shortly after his wife gave birth to their son and … Read more…
by Erik Dolson
Men should imagine themselves as victims of sexual aggression by other men. Go ahead, pull up that prison nightmare you’ve joked about for years, bar of soap included in the unlikely event your attacker wants to be gentle.
Feel the powerlessness? Experience the violation? How would you feel the next day? The year after that? What would you remember?
Imagine that if you report to the guards that you were raped, they … Read more…
by Erik Dolson
Brett Kavanaugh has shown the world that he is not a man of judicial temperament. He’s just a jerk of prep school privilege, enraged to the point of tears that his inherited entitlement is not making past bad actions disappear.
Those actions probably occurred under the influence of alcohol and youthful hormones. Is there proof? Yes, in his own hand on his high school yearbook page. His own calendar. … Read more…
By Erik Dolson
This morning I read a press release about a recall of the blood pressure medication valsartan because of an impurity that’s a probable carcinogen. This impurity may have been the result of manufacturing changes at Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical – a Chinese company. I was prescribed valsartan six months ago.
So I went to my pharmacy this afternoon and learned that in fact, most of the valsartan they sell came from … Read more…
Working my way north, and trying to write on an iPad instead of the heavy-weight computer. First stop today was at a kart track to knock some of the rust off the driving skills. Jakester made a point of being almost two seconds faster than me — in my kart!
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If you don’t like “FREE” … Read more…
It was always about something else, and that wasn’t about racing.
Last year at the Portland Historics, Ceegar was falsely accused of hitting another car between Turn 4 and Turn 5. It didn’t happen, and there’s proof.
Facts are sometimes lost around a race track. Maybe often around a race track. There were four cars involved, not three. It happened in less than two seconds. And nobody was at fault.
But those are facts, and probably don’t matter. Disagreements have a way of becoming facts and the fact is, most of the Big Bore Bad Boys won’t be racing at the Portland Historics this July.
I wasn’t racing when … Read more…