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Friday, September 28, 2018
37 comments:
- s. wallerstein said...
Your comment that if you do not believe that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth and Kavanaugh is lying about the actual incident, you should go to another blog puzzles me.
I have no idea which of them is lying. I'd need to examine the evidence in a lot more detail to decide which of them is. I hope that Kavanaugh is rejected because he is rightwing pig, not because he may be lying.
In my 55 or so years on the left I've learned that the left lies as much as the right does. I'm not on the left because I believe that it lies less, but because there is a class struggle, a gender struggle, a racial struggle, etc., and in all those cases I'm on the side of the oppressed, of workers, of women, of black people, etc..
As you so wisely point out in other posts, it's a "which side are you on" question, not a question of who is lying. We're on the same side: that's why I read your blog.
- September 28, 2018 at 9:40 AM
- DDA said...
Here's what Corey Robin says (which is totally compatible with the individual psychopathology): "Beyond whatever was self-serving and pure lies in Kavanaugh's testimony yesterday, what we saw—the operatic rage, the contempt, the tears, the fury, the hauteur, the blinking anxiety—was the expression of one of the experiences that I tried to identify in my book as being at the heart of conservatism: not just loss, but felt loss. And not just ambient sorrow but a militant avowal of desired recovery. When conservatism is in its ascendancy, it is able to connect that particular feeling of loss, the loss of one social class, to a more universal constituency. When it is in retreat, it has a much more difficult time making that sense of loss speak across the population, of making it travel far and wide. In the coming weeks and months, we'll see which of the two situations we're in."
- September 28, 2018 at 10:07 AM
Similar insights here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-yearbook-male-bonding.html
- September 28, 2018 at 11:12 AM
- Guy Tennenbaum said...
I think I agree with this for the most part. I'm struck in particular by the claim that Kavanaugh wouldn't have raped Dr. Ford even if he'd managed to pry her clothes off. He and his buddy saw it as just horseplay.
However, I don't think I agree that Kavanaugh was under "constant pressure to repress his sexual [and also aggressive] urges." No doubt there are many Christian cultures that rigoursly repress all expressions of sexuality and aggressiveness. But the 80s prep school milieu of Brett Kavanaugh's adolescence was not one of them. My guess is that you're right in speculating that Kavanaugh himself was unusually devout. He likely saw it as his duty to conform to the Church's teaching on premarital sex, just like he saw it as his duty to get straight A's.
But this was mostly a personal regime of self-discipline on Kavanaugh's part. In truth, he had no trouble moving between the Church and the frat-boy party scene of his peers, which isn't so much sexually open as violently misogynistic. In fact, as feminists always point out, the patriarchal religion and the masculinist secular culture support and sustain one another. If anyone needs evidence of how pervasive this toxic masculinity was back then (it's gotten better), they need only watch the 1985 John Hughes film "Sixteen Candles," which is regarded as a "classic" of teen cinema but which is, in addition to being horribly racist, a shocking glorification of date rape.
I'm practically blind with rage over this whole disgusting affair. That pig Kavanaugh may make it to the Supreme Court, but I'm glad to hear him say his life has been forever destroyed. I'm glad his family's life has been destroyed. All of that is richly deserved. I hope he's never able to enter a restaurant or store without being loudly called out as rapist, which is what he is. He deserves no peace. Ever.
- September 28, 2018 at 11:44 AM
- Guy Tennenbaum said...
S. Wallerstein,
Kavanaugh is clearly lying about a whole bunch of stuff. But regarding the core allegation, it's pretty clear that Dr. Ford is being truthful. She has therapist notes mentioning the incident going back several years. She also told her huband and friends. Plus, why would someone like her — a successful academic with a family — choose to upturn her life in this way if she weren't telling the truth? Clearly Kavanaugh did something horrible to her, and as he has offered no other reason for a possible vendetta (he claims not to remember her), we can only assume that what he did was brief and horrible, exactly what she describes. Plus, she came off as eminently credible in her testimony.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:09 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Isn't it about time we apologized to Andrea Dworkin?
- September 28, 2018 at 12:09 PM
- Derek said...
A note about who should be assumed to be lying. From the limited research on the topic, the percentage of people suspected to be lying about sexual assault in general is, at most, about 5%. (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rape-allegations-fabricated/). It's happens almost never.
Why not? The reason is very simple, strikingly obvious when you realize it, and exemplified in horrific clarity by what happened to Dr. Ford. She has explicitly stated that she did not want to come forward because she knew her life would be ruined once her name became public. Her suspicion is basically universally shared by women who experience sexual assault. And it is justified, as, once again, was exhibited within 24 hours of Dr. Ford's name being released.
The grand majority (at least 2/3, likely far more, following the Snopes link) of sexual assault cases are not reported. Here we see why. The inclination to suspect that women are ever likely to be lying about this sort of thing is an artifact of a world and worldview that doesn't square with the facts. And what I have found in recent discussions is that this is almost as often true of those who consider themselves on the left, even the far far left.
A separate note: Ed, you may want to consider Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in the context of Kavanaugh's repression. The moralism of American elite 'by-the-bootstraps' self-image, plus a dash of Freud, get you a story very much like Dr. Wolff's while incorporating your points.
Lastly, I just find the mental image of Kavanaugh screaming at the committee "I AM A GOOD BOY" to be amazing.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:13 PM
- s. wallerstein said...
As a general rule, as a matter of self-discipline, when I am emotionally involved in a partisan political issue, as most of us are in preventing Kavanaugh from reaching the Supreme Court, I am especially skeptical of what my own side says, just because all of us, me too, have a human tendency to believe that our own side is telling the truth, whether or not that is the case.
Once again, I reiterate that I hope that Kavanaugh, a rightwing pig, does not reach the Supreme Court.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:21 PM
This may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the Republicans. It may further antagonize and energize opposition to them, which may manifest itself importantly in about six weeks. I think that the Democrats and anybody else who's not a right-winger should not let this confirmation fight be forgotten or otherwise marginalized. Keep it current, right into 2020. Keep attention on this courtesano.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:35 PM
Your analysis does make sense, from a psychological perspective.
But it raises an interesting point regarding Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation. You conclude that both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh were telling the truth, which means he is mistaken about what occurred, even though he believes what he testified to is true, i.e., because of his drinking, he has a memory lapse and does not remember what happened. Dr. Ford is apolitical on this issue – she came forward not because she disagrees with Judge Kavanaugh's conservative jurisprudential ideology, but because she believes that his attempted rape, and that alone, is sufficient to disqualify him from being on the Supreme Court. There is no question Judge Kavanaugh is eminently qualified to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court. Before the Bork hearings, such academic and professional qualifications were sufficient to warrant elevation to the Court. So, putting aside questions of ideological persuasion, if his attempted rape of Dr, Ford were the only blemish on his otherwise sterling record, should that be sufficient, as Dr. Ford is contending, to deny him a seat on the Supreme Court? To put it another way, suppose the candidate were Merrick Garland, an academically equally qualified jurist, and evidence were produced implicating Judge Garland in an attempted rape while in a drunken stupor, would we be willing to overlook that single blemish because his liberal judicial philosophy was more palatable to us on the left? I believe this is what so incensed Sen. Lindsay and caused his outburst – he voted to confirm Justices Kagan and Sontomayor, even though he adamantly disagreed with their liberal judicial philosophy. (During the hearing, I was wondering whether some of the icons of the Supreme Court, e.g., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, had any personal skeletons in their closets that today would be deemed sufficient to prevent their appointment to the S. Ct. I certainly hope not.)
I have a different take on the hearing. I believe Kavanaugh was, in fact, lying. I believe he does remember the incident and has, as a good Catholic, been seeking to atone for it by making a deliberate effort to befriend females, promote their careers as law clerks, coach them in basketball, etc. From his perspective, he has atoned sufficiently, that, combined with his hard work in academia and as a jurist, it is unfair and cruel to deny him the fulfillment of his life's aspiration. I believe he lied about that because I believe he lied about numerous other matters during the hearing. For example, he claimed four individuals had submitted statements under penalty of felony that refuted Dr. Ford's accusation. As a lawyer and judge, he knows that this statement is false. The statements that were submitted were letters, they were not affidavits sworn under oath. Mark Judge's statement was not even his own – it was a letter written by his attorney. Moreover, the statements did not refute Dr. Ford's allegation, they merely stated that the individuals had no recollection of any incident comparable to what Dr. Ford alleges. Judge Kavanaugh surely knows that a lack of recollection does not equate to refutation.
He claimed there was no corroborative evidence supporting Dr. Ford's accusation. As a judge, he surely knows that the requirement an individual claiming rape produce corroborative evidence no longer applies in most jurisdictions. An alleged victim's testimony alone, if persuasive, is deemed sufficient to justify a prosecution and conviction. Corroborative evidence is desired, but is not necessary.
These prevarications, along with what I regard as his prior perjury re what he meant with respect to his email referring to Roe v. Wade as unsettled law, in addition to his attempted rape of Dr. Ford, persuade me that Judge Kavanaugh is a disingenuous, conservative ideologue who does not deserve to be on the Supreme Court. I am convinced of one other thing – if confirmed, he is going to seek revenge against the Democrats with every fiber of his being.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:41 PM
s. wallerstein wrote in the first comment above: Your comment that if you do not believe that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth and Kavanaugh is lying about the actual incident, you should go to another blog puzzles me.
I do not think that this is what RPW wrote:
First of all, I believe Christine Blasey Ford's account. I am certain that she suffered the experience she described, and I am certain that she is not mistaken about the identity of the two persons in the room. If you reject these judgments, then you will probably prefer to navigate to some other blog.
He wants to focus on Kavanaugh's background, suffering and experience to understand his behavior before the committee. RPW can certainly speak for himself, but I think that his most preferred audience would include those who disagree but might be persuaded by the argument he follows in this post. Presumably this would include none who are convinced that Ford is lying, but many who think both sound (equally) credible. Thus he would want those who do not think Kavanaugh is lying to stick around and hear him (RPW) out.
- September 28, 2018 at 12:45 PM
No, I do not believe we owe Andrea Dworkin an apology,
I do not dispute her claim that pornography was, for some, connected to physical abuse of women. But she, and Catherine MacKinnon, advocated for the passage of legislation outlawing pornography, making its publication and dissemination a criminal offense, and allowing victims of sexual assault to file civil suits against pornographers. Such legislation would, I believe correctly, be ruled unconstitutional under the First Amendment's protection of free speech. Moreover, in a civil suit, how would you prove that a sexual assault was factually caused by an individual's obsession with pornography? Moreover, f you ban pornography – assuming you could sufficiently define it in legislation to distinguish between "soft" porn and "hard" porn – what about novels that graphically portray sexual assaults – "Deliverance," "Justine," "The Story of O"?
Rather, I believe it is Anita Hill who deserves an apology. But it will not be forthcoming from the Republicans.
As usual, the Bard has something insightful to say about current events:
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hides all. Plate sins with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
King Lear, Act IV, Scene VII
- September 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM
Even if the K boy is telling the truth, do we really want a drama queen on the bench? Yikes.
- September 28, 2018 at 1:45 PM
It is being reported that Senator Graham may have saved Judge Kavanaugh's nomination with his emotional outburst. Below is the text of an email that I sent to Senator Graham a few hours after the hearing, with a copy emailed to each of the members on the Senate Judiciary Committee (with the exception of Sen. Blumenthal, since his website does not accept emails from non-constituents). Some may think that I crossed a line and was undiplomatic, but I figures, why treat those with respect who derailed Merrick Garland's nomination and are now using every means possible to push through the confirmation of a disingenuous, egotistical, right-wing ideologue.
Senator Graham,
I am an attorney in Michigan. Since I am not one of your constituents, I do not expect you to reply to this email.
I watched all of the hearing with respect to Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh on September 27. I am writing to you, sir, to state that you are a jackass. Your tantrum during the hearing was an inexcusable disgrace.
The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee had retained Rachell Mitchell, a seasoned prosecutor in the area of rape and sex crimes, to question both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh. She conducted and completed the entire examination of Dr. Ford and did what I thought was a respectable, professional job. Dr. Ford came across as an honest, sincere and persuasive witness.
Ms. Mitchell then proceeded to question Judge Kavanaugh, as we were told by Senator Grassley she was expected to do. Then you, in a fit of childish, moralizing, sanctimonious screaming usurped the function that Ms. Mitchell was supposed to perform and shouted accusations at the Democrats of having smeared and slandered Judge Kavanaugh's good name by concealing Dr. Ford's allegation, and then unleashing it when it became opportune to do so. Ms. Mitchell was prevented from continuing in the role for which she was retained – to get at the truth with regard to the very serious allegation that she has made about Judge Kavanaugh, an allegation of attempted rape when she was 15 and he was 17, a charge which, if true, should disqualify him from sitting as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Was Ms. Mitchell's questioning getting too close to undermining Judge Kavanaugh's denial that he was the individual who attempted to rape her, so you decided to derail Ms. Mitchell's examination by launching your ridiculous tirade?
It is not the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee who have brought shame on the United States Senate. It is you and your Republican cronies who are willing to elevate a man to the Supreme Court who is alleged to have attempted to rape a young woman – all in your headlong pursuit to solidify a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. You have done a gross disservice to the country you claim to love so dearly. You, sir, and your Republican colleagues, are hypocrites – maybe "God fearing" hypocrites, but hypocrites nonetheless.
cc (via email): Senators Grassley, Hatch, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Flake, Sasse, Crapo, Tillis, Kennedy, Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Klobuchar, Coons, Hirono, Booker, Harris, Whitehouse
- September 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM
- Howie said...
Does anyone think that Kavanagh qualifies for the dark triad? Narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism?
He's Trump's boy, Trump the Bermuda Triangle of the dark triad, but a Supreme Court Justice being a psychopath?
I mean the Republicans are all about raw power and that is what rape is essentially about and he'll be their point man on the court.
Is there a history of psychopaths or maybe authoritarians on the court? He clearly is a law and order authoritarian in the ugliest way and he clearly sees himself as Mr. Victim out of a sense of grandiose and smallminded entitlement
- September 28, 2018 at 2:11 PM
Howard Berman,
Psychopaths? I am not sure. But authoritarians, yes, absolutely.
I am confident that a number of justices on the Supreme Court during the ante-bellum years would be regarded as authoritarian. During those years, a majority of the justices came from the South and I suspect many owned slaves. For a more definitive answer on this, we would have to ask an historian like Michael Beschloss.
In the 20th century, one justice comes immediately to mind – Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served as an Associate Justice on the Court from 1914 to 1941. He was extremely conservative and always ruled in favor of business and corporate interests. He was one of the Four Horsemen (w/ Justices Sutherland, Willis, Van DeVanter and Butler), who routinely ruled against President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation and were the reason why Roosevelt proposed packing the Court. About Justice McReynolds' temperament, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court states the following: "As a person, McReynolds was often rude, impatient and sarcastic. He detested tobacco and prohibited others from smoking in his presence. His attitudes toward women, especially female attorneys, were likewise intolerant. Perhaps one of his least endearing characteristics was his thoroughgoing anti-Semitism, which prevented him from being civil to his Jewish brethren Brandeis and Cardozo."
More recently, many on the left would probably regard Justice Scalia as authoritarian. Although I did not agree with many of his opinions, I am not sure that he would properly be labeled as authoritarian. I say this in part because of Justice Ginsburg's close friendship with Scalia (something that I find a bit inscrutable, notwithstanding their mutual love for opera). I do not believe that Justice Ginsburg would tolerate or be friends with someone who was authoritarian or intolerant.
- September 28, 2018 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous at 12:45PM, in response to S. wallerstein's initial comment, was me. Sorry.
- September 28, 2018 at 3:11 PM
- Howie said...
Do you think that people can do antisocial things: like rape or revoke health care for millions of people, which are psychopathic in impact undercover of peer pressure or political ideology, even though they are not clinically psychopaths? Nazis liked their pet dogs and went out for warm fun at bars with their comrades-
Why not say that a psychopath is what a psychopath does and that the establishment he belongs to, either the catholic school system or the Republican party are antisocial to the point of malevolency and we become numb or dumb to it because we accept the authority and legitimacy of mainstream institutions- many people went to war who weren't psychopaths- perhaps the better word is evil- he is a bad, evil man
- September 28, 2018 at 3:27 PM
All legitimate points, @MS, but I think you missed mine. I wasn't suggesting that the (in my opinion, important) work she and MacKinnon performed at the time and thereafter was legally airtight. I was suggesting that Dworkin, in particular, was maligned for years for daring to challenge patriarchy, directly and indelicately. She called out the ill effects of pornography. Not being able to prove them legally is a separate issue, but she worked on multiple fronts: legal, rhetorical, political... She was widely and unfairly despised by men and women alike. To my mind, it's because she was effective.
- September 28, 2018 at 3:48 PM
Howard Berman,
I believe, generally, language should be used with precision. There are colloquial uses of the term "psychopath," and then there is the more rigorous medical definition. I do not have a medical degree, so I cannot tell the difference between, for example, a sociopath and a psychopath, or a person with a personality disorder or one with a borderline personality disorder. I believe the term "psychopath," being such a derogatory term, should be reserved for people who actually exhibit the clinical symptoms of the pathology. In a previous comment to a different posting, I included a link to an interview with Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist, in which she described Trump's symptoms as more in keeping with that of a sociopath, rather than a psychopath. From a nonclinical standpoint, I would think that in order to warrant the label of being a psychopath, an individual has to display a willingness to personally engage in violence without empathy for its effects on the victim(s). I do not believe that applies to Trump, i.e., he is not personally violent, but he encourages violence in others. I suspect his sociopathy is attractive to, and finds support among, individuals who would qualify as psychopaths.
So, I would not regard people who are selfish, advance political causes that harm the poor and benefit the wealthy, as psychopaths simply by virtue of their promoting what they regard as their self-interest. Some of them may be, but I do not even believe the majority of them are. Some, like Trump, may suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder. I believe most of them are just selfish people – that is not a psychiatric diagnosis. It is a comment on their ethics, or lack thereof. Being unethical is not per se psychopathic. Saying that we should designate as psychopathic what psychopaths do is correct, but psychopaths do far worse things than just being selfish.
Regarding Germans during the Nazi regime - some of whom simply tolerated the regime, but did not join the party; some who joined the party out of pragmatism, but did not enthusiastically support the party; some who joined and enthusiastically supported it; some who joined and also engaged in genocide – of these five categories, I would not regard those in the 1st 4 as psychopaths. With regard to the last category, some of them were certainly psychopaths, but I do not believe all necessarily were, although they were all evil. Killing people simply because of their religion, race, or sexual orientation is surely evil. Among the SS guards at Auschwitz, I am sure there were many psychopaths who enjoyed inflicting pain on the internees; but I believe there were also some who just joined the SS for the pay, perhaps the prestige, and did not particularly bear any grudge towards Jews. They were weak conformists, not psychopaths. (Believe me, I am not an apologist for Nazis or those in the SS.)
With respect to your larger point regarding Judge Kavanaugh and his supporters, are those who support Judge Kavanaugh psychopaths, sociopaths, or evil? I would say, no, not necessarily any of those. As you can see from my above email to Sen. Graham, I do believe that they are hypocrites, but I do not believe that even means they are evil. They are hypocrites because they are willing to advance the career of a man who it appears has engaged in conduct which their religious/personal beliefs deem as wrong and sinful, in order to advance what they regard as a more important objective, e.g., undoing Roe v. Wade, or preventing the advance of socialism, or ..... I do not agree, for example, with the position that abortion is wrong or sinful, but I understand that many of those who do oppose abortion believe that life begins at conception, and therefore abortion at any stage is murder. I do not believe this, but I cannot say that they do not have a "good" objective. However, even if their objective is "good," as is mentioned in the Yom Kippur prayer that I previously posted, among the sins are "all the evil means we employ to accomplish good ends."
- September 28, 2018 at 8:02 PM
Before I respond to your last point, I would like to note that the kind of exchange that is occurring in this thread is akin to the metaphor I previously invoked of my understanding of the function of a blog to be like an internet cocktail party, where interesting, informed people offer their opinions in a generally respectful fashion, not bullying or being bullied to concede points, but sharing their opinions and cultivating civilized, even if occasionally sarcastic, communication. I suspect that many who read this blog, unless, perhaps, if they work in an academic setting, do not have access to a forum in which they can engage in such communication. In most workplaces, people do not engage in conversations that address the range of subjects that are raised in this blog. I believe that a forum in which such a collegial exchange of ideas can occur is a good thing, regardless how many times the same person(s) may contribute to the conversation. And I thank Prof. Wolff for providing and promoting such a forum.
I agree that Andrea Dworkin heightened our awareness of the potentially harmful effects of pornography by enhancing misogynistic attitudes towards women and its propensity to foster violence in some men towards women. However, I believe she did her own cause a disservice by recommending the passage of legislation that would have infringed on the free speech rights of individuals to read and look at pornographic material as they wished. In so doing, she alienated a lot of people, including men who sympathized with her views, but felt a strong commitment to the Constitution and the 1st Amendment's protection of free speech. In that regard, the cure she propounded was worse than the disease. Even as disreputable a character as Larry Flynt performed a public service by defending the use of pornographic satire under the 1st Amendment against the attack of the religious right in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988).
- September 28, 2018 at 8:50 PM
I can't reduce Dworkin's contribution to a mere cost-benefit analysis or a strategic lapse. Even men who feel "a strong commitment to the Constitution and the 1st Amendment's protection of free speech" are capable of recognizing the inherent tensions in FA jurisprudence, Citizen's United being an obvious recent example. Even these same men are capable of withholding support for the Dworkin-MacKinnon legislation while seeking its goals. They don't thereby become victims of a cudcharacter simply because he took salutary action in the Falwell case, then why do we demean Dworkin's because her legislative activism failed?
- September 28, 2018 at 10:00 PM
I don't know what happened to my comment above @10:00 PM. Instead of "They don't thereby become victims of a cud..." it should read:
Your Flynt example supports this. If we won't redeem Flynt's character simply because he took salutary action in the Falwell case, then why do we demean Dworkin's because her legislative activism failed?
- September 28, 2018 at 10:05 PM
- Howie said...
Dear MS
I have a copy of the book on Trump which Bandy Lee edited too.
Sociopathy is more environmentally caused and more impulsive.
Trump essentially like a juvenile delinquent who steals hubcaps, which he may have.
But I'd argue that the cynicism of a Kavanaugh and a McConnell is just as bad as Trump.
Why? Because their behavior has the same effect. The exact mechanism is irrelevant,
The example I'd use is from war- I served a year in the IDF- there were some Generals who like Sharon loved war and whom one may say had a psychopathic disregard for the life of the enemy. There were others who though they had some reservations like Barak, thought of the enemy as leaving them no choice but in some sense deserving it.
All are equally guilty Labor and Likud
What I'm saying is that there is a thin line between a world class sociopath like Trump and the cynics who enable him.
The pyschopathic behavior of the Republican establishment is more respectable and disguised but it is just as bad- if they can turn it off and cover it up doesn't make it any better.
I use the word evil, with the cynics who enable Trump, it is an act of will and therefore darker in a way- they willingly do harm- Trump has no fucking control over himself and is essentially an emotionally disturbed person- ask Socrates and his paradox of willful evil-
They engage in behavior that willingly if indirectly harms millions- they are power mongers- craving for power over anything else produces the same results as psychopathy and is evil.
That's what I'm saying
- September 28, 2018 at 10:06 PM
I believe the discussion we are having is very interesting.
Actually, I don't believe Larry Flynt did anything that required his being redeemed. While I would not want to spend a lot of time with him, and think if I did that we would not have much in common to converse about, I do believe that he performed a great public service – yes, a greater public service than that which Andrea Dworkin performed. Larry Flynt's use of an obscene cartoon to mock and humiliate Jerry Falwell and his right wing religious hypocrisy, and his defense of his right to do so as protected by the 1st Amendment, achieved three major accomplishments. He protected the right of artists of numerous genre – writing, painting, theater – against claims of obscenity as a basis to circumscribe artistic expression. At the same time, he legitimized the role of satire, even profane satire, against conservative efforts to penalize it. Finally, he exposed the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of the religious right. With regard to his purveying of pornography, he argued that his pornographic pictures and stories were less harmful to the public than the glamorizing of military violence by the government and movie industry. I am glad that he protected the right of men, and women if they wish, to look at dirty pictures.
Regarding Andrea Dworkin, I don't demean her because, as you put it, her legislative activism failed. I criticize her for even advocating such legislative prohibitions on the publication and sale of pornography in the first place. If she had her way, hardcore pornography showing adults in graphic sexual poses and interactions would be banned entirely, and if people like Larry Flynt tried to publish and sell it, they would be prosecuted and jailed. I deem that prospect a far greater threat to the public welfare and liberty than anything Larry Flynt did. Moreover, her legislative advocacy was based on a tenuous connection between pornography and sexual violence. See https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/does-pornography-lead-to-sexual-assault_us_57c0876ae4b0b01630d A lot of men buy and read pornography, but only a small percentage of those who do so engage in sexual violence, including domestic violence. There are other causal factors that contribute to their behavior than their exposure (pun intended) to pornography. To criminalize the publication and sale of pornography based on such a tenuous correlation - and remember, correlation does not entail causation – at the same time radically weakening the free speech protection of the 1st Amendment, I find entirely unjustifiable. And it is for her advocacy of such a regimen that I criticize Andrea Dworkin.
- September 28, 2018 at 11:45 PM
I do believe I'm witnessing sophistry in action. Your arguments, MS, no longer strike me as stemming from good faith.
- September 28, 2018 at 11:53 PM
I haven't read a lot of the comment thread but I have a brief comment on Prof. Wolff's post.
I agree w/ certain aspects of the post but I think it's somewhat hazardous to engage in this sort of psychoanalysis-at-a-distance of someone one 'knows' only as filtered through the media reports about his life or through his televised testimony. Hazardous, but not necessarily completely groundless.
Second, the repressions of which the post speaks were not unique to Kavanaugh, as the post admits. From a Freudian perspective (which is where RPW is clearly coming from) everyone born into Kavanaugh's circumstances and in his milieu would face comparable pressure to repress sexual and aggressive urges. (Though not everyone might do it to the same extent.)
Third, to be under the extreme psychological pressure described in the post and yet function at a high level as a student and athlete, which Kavanaugh evidently did, is quite a feat. One *might* have expected, to continue in the post's vein of somewhat off-the-cuff psychoanalysis, that at a certain point the psychological pressures would have affected Kavanaugh's academic performance, say, but they apparently did not. Which in itself is, perhaps, an interesting fact. Well, I'll stop here.
- September 29, 2018 at 12:55 AM
- Jerry Fresia said...
Good blog. That makes sense to me.
I saw this insight today and thought it was important:
"I am completely baffled why, outside of Philip Bump's excellent articles on this yesterday... (and Bump is not always someone I agree with or find persuasive), everyone isn't camping out on the Calendar. How in the world could someone who thinks he's qualified for the Supreme Court willingly give up the most damning corroborating evidence of all, somehow thinking it proves his innocence? It's a bit gobsmacking, to be honest. The July 1 entry, in particular, that Bump has focused on, puts Kavanaugh with Judge, P.J. (whom Ford has named as at the party), Squi (whom Blasey Ford says now she was going out with around that time), and a few other boys. They were drinking (as Kavanaugh admitted "skis" meant with Cory Booker in the hearings). It fits, as Bump noted, the timeline of six to eight weeks before Blasey Ford could have run into Judge at a grocery store later that summer. Beyond the fact of all the rest of the corroborating evidence suggesting that Dr. Blasey Ford is telling the truth (where Kavanaugh's honesty is questionable at best), how can any decision maker in their right mind want to put someone so terrible at evaluating evidence into a lifetime role on the nation's most powerful court?"
- September 29, 2018 at 6:07 AM
I agree that the use of the calendar was a red herring. Kavanaugh offered it because he believed, I believe correctly, that most in the public would find its use as convincing and exculpatory. (I got a kick out of Dr. Ford's acknowledging she did not know what "exculpatory" meant and asked for a definition. That made her human. She has a Ph.d., yet was willing to admit that she did not know the meaning of a high fallutin' 7 letter word.)
Kavanaugh was arguing the party in question likely occurred on a weekend and the calendar demonstrated he was not in the vicinity of the party on any of the weekend days in the summer of 1982. He claimed the kind of party that Dr. Ford was referring to would most likely have occurred on a weekend. July 2, 1982, was a Friday. So, he was contending, the fact that the entry in question shows him drinking with some buddies was irrelevant, since it was not the day in question. Moreover, the entry identifies the following boys as present in addition to himself: Timmy, Mark Judge, Tom, PJ, Bernie and Ski. Dr. Ford did not indicate that many boys were at the party, nor, to my memory of her testimony, did she identify Tom and Bernie. Therefore, Kavanaugh was arguing, that was not the party that Dr. Ford was referring to.
Dr. Ford did not testify, however, that the party occurred on a weekend. She indicated she could not be sure on what day it occurred, whether it was a weekend or a weekday. That was one of the reasons she wanted an FBI investigation, to find out when Judge worked at the grocery store she went to a few weeks after the incident. Still, there are more boys present in the July 2 entry than Dr. Ford testified to. She did testify, however, that "at least" the number of people she identified were there. Rachel Mitchell, the prosecutor, was careful to question her about that, because she was aware of the July 2, 1982 entry in Kavanaugh's diary and wanted to determine whether the entry could be disqualified as identifying the date of the party.
But the calendar was a red herring for different reasons. The calendar was hearsay, and would not be admissible at a trial unless it satisfied a number of technical criteria under two exceptions of the hearsay rule – the business record exception and the past recollection recorded exception. The criteria, which I won't go into because they are numerous, are intended to substantiate the accuracy of the document. Ms. Mitchell, in fact, asked Kavanaugh a number of questions that would render the calendar admissible under the past recollection recorded exception. (I do not recall if she asked Kavanaugh all of the criteria that must be satisfied.) Here's the thing. In my experience, calendars are more often offered by the party opposing the witness testifying, to be used in cross-examination (e.g., your calendar indicates that you were in Florida on the date in question, yet you testified you were in New York). They are infrequently offered by a witness/party to corroborate their own testimony, because they are easily manipulated, which can be demonstrated on cross-examination. For example, we have no guarantee that the entries in the calendar were entered at the time the events occurred, as Kavanaug claimed. They could have been prepared days, or weeks later, or even during days immediately prior to the hearing. More importantly, Kavanaugh was using the calendar to demonstrate the absence of any entry referring to a party of the sort that Dr. Ford described. But the absence of an entry proves nothing. If the event actually occurred as Dr. Ford described it, and Kavanaugh remembered it, he would unlikely enter a reference to the party in his calendar – even a teenager appreciates that it could cause him trouble in the future. Alternatively, he may have been too intoxicated to remember what happened (Dr. Ford testified that after he and Judge left the room, they went down the stairs bouncing off the wall) and therefore did not enter it in his calendar. For these reasons, the offering of the calendar was a total red herring.
- September 29, 2018 at 1:01 PM
- Guy Tennenbaum said...
I want to amend something I said in my earlier intemperate outburst. I said I was glad that this ordeal has destroyed Kavanaugh's family. I'm actually not glad his kids have been hurt, since they are innocent. I believe Kavanaugh is guilty, and I am certain that he is lying about many things. My instinct tells me that any pain Kavanaugh is undergoing — including the pain of knowing he has inflicted suffering on his family — is absolutely warranted deserved, since he brought all this on himself. It is unfortunate, however, that his kids have to be caught up in all this.
My outburst came just as it seemed Kavanaugh's and Graham's, etc., theatrical hissy fits were going to win the day. The victim was going to be ignored, he was going to sail through to the S Court, and a man who sexually assaulted (at least) one woman was going to be the deciding vote to roll back women's rights, and so much else. That appears to be slightly less certain today. So I guess my rage can be kept at bay for at least another week.
- September 29, 2018 at 5:49 PM
- Dr. Renee said...
I think Kamala Harris nailed the point about the women friends Kavanaugh tries to use to obscure his participation in aggressive violence against women (and I agree with RPW...most young male sexual violence is done in herds...they "graduate" to individualized violence). That is, those women within his "circle" or "clique" were off limits. Dr. Ford was clearly not "in" so as an "out" woman she was a "legitimate" target. It is not exactly the old "madonna/whore" distinction, but is related.
- September 29, 2018 at 8:15 PM
It's humorous that there is no critical evaluation of Dr. Ford, a rich (much wealthier than Kavanaugh), White (much whiter/WASPier than Kavanaugh) girl who probably had her choice of male playthings when she was a teenager. Where's your discussion of rich, WASPy,female power and agency?
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- September 30, 2018 at 12:04 AM
- Blinn Combs said...
Professor Wolf, I regularly enjoy your commentary, and I'm quite sympathetic with your plight to find a through-line to this complex situation that does at least some justice to the conflicting accounts. I wish I found this more convincing, and admittedly, my skepticism, like your sympathy, rest largely on facts suspected but not directly in evidence.
There's certainly a good deal of (male) approval-seeking, and no doubt at least the appearance of pressure, but I'd suggest a better theory is to be found in the class divisions of the scene than in the psychosocial dynamics. (See https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/kavanaugh-is-lying-his-upbringing-explains-why/2018/09/27/2b596314-c270-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.9fa3d144c0bf) No doubt his life was occasioned by pressure, but it's at least plausible that privilege is the better descriptor. Perhaps he excelled on his own merits, but it's at least plausible that his success was in large part preordained by the structure of his class, money, and social position. Perhaps that also occasioned a large amount of stress, but everything about the picture of the man that his acquaintances and other records like his calendar paint a life of privilege, indiscipline, and vulgarity.
Maybe he's actually extremely bright and conventional, but that's hardly been in evidence, except for in his entirely self-serving, and entirely incredible, self-portrait. Your story is more pleasing, since it preserves at least some sympathy for the man, but it's at least as plausible that, as they say, he (or rather, his family) essentially paid his way to the top, and was afforded every privilege because he charmed (or bribed or coerced or what have you--fewer negatives are required when the narration of one's success has already been fore-ordained by the prestige of elite-status) the (usually, maybe always) males that held the keys to his success. Perhaps I'm being excessively cynical, but when I look at the man, I see a partisan hack, a simple con, and an utterly mediocre sexual predator.
- September 30, 2018 at 3:02 AM
Your analysis is sexist and fairly...old school. Are you an older white male?
- September 30, 2018 at 10:46 AM
- Raymond Wacks said...
Over the years I have attempted to address moral questions encountered by judges in unjust societies (principally apartheid South Africa). Despite my robust criticism of the judiciary in that malign context, my arguments have always been premised on the (not unreasonable) assumption that judges are, in general, rational beings who have the capacity to exercise judgment! Absent that assumption, my own judgment would fall flat.
Witnessing Judge Kavanaugh's histrionics, I have no doubt that, his impressive CV notwithstanding, he is wholly unsuited to the Bench. I would argue that his current appointment ought to be reconsidered.
- October 4, 2018 at 6:23 AM
- Bob Hockett said...
This is impressive as a quick work of charitable interpretation, but I don't think the charity's warrant bears further reflection or scrutiny. It is possible, I suppose, that K's more tearful and seemingly fearful moments reflected some deep primal fright at having been 'caught in the act' of a 'bad boy' by Daddy or Father. But the boorish responses to Senators' queries - especially female Senators' queries - looked to me to reveal far more infantile rage at a prospective denial of perceived entitlement than backhanded acknowledgement of possible lapse to the Daddy or Father. Yes, if he really BELIEVED he'd been 'a good boy,' the account here would be compatible with that evident sense of entitlement. But K could not truly believe that assault would be 'good boy' behavior, could he? If not, and if he wasn't subject to almost unimaginable 'cognitive dissonance,' then at best he could only continue to consider himself a good boy 'overall' or 'on balance.' And that in turn's possible only if (a) you think sexual assault a mere peccadillo, (b) you think that the work you have done for Ken Starr, Karl Rove, and other rightwing filth 'outweighs' all your crimes against women, or (c) both. Against that backdrop, 'just another self-entitled piece of shit' seems to me a more fitting description than 'sexually represses "good boy."'
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Victor Davis Hanson reviews a new book on the subject -- The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Thinking and the Subversion of the West, by Michael Walsh.
Here's VDH, who calls the Frankfurt intellectuals "charlatans," laying it all out for us:
Note that Republicans have taken back both houses of Congress, often win in the Supreme Court, have majorities in the state legislatures and governorships, and may win the presidency in 2016. And yet if one examines the schools and universities, Hollywood, the art world, what shows up on televisions and the news, whom the foundations are funding, what the clerks in government do — everything really from our monuments to poetry — it is hard not to confess that "we lost."
In a word, relativism seems to have won. There are few standards left. Everything is negotiable, from the now fossilized idea of a traitor like Bergdahl to a neo-Confederate sanctuary city. A play, a movie, a building, a novel — anything really — cannot be assessed by absolute criteria, given that such "standards" are always set by oppressors of some sort, usually the children of capitalism and bourgeoisie consumerism who wish to enshrine their "privilege." Take a sentence, chop it up into lines, and presto — a poem. By what standards is Chopin any more a genius than a Snoop Dogg? I thought of Walsh's book yesterday when watching the various newscast reactions to the migration crisis in Europe and the deer-in-the-headlines faces of the European Eloi: Who are we to say that our culture is better than theirs? What is a border anyway? What even is a migrant? Whose values construct someone into the "Other"? Why do hosts enjoy privilege and guests do not?
Frankfurt intellectuals have done a lot of damage: from multiculturalism to postmodern art, they have destroyed the individual experience and made us cardboard cut-outs by their constant Marxist-inspired dumbing down, ending in a dreary predictable sameness. The past has become melodrama adjudicated by 30-year-old PhDs rather than muscular tragedy. When Obama decides to rename a mountain or brags that Trayvon looks like the son he never had or urges Latinos to "punish our enemies" and quips "typical white person," he is more or less offering a paint-by-numbers version of the postmodernists who despise both the rich capitalist West whose bounty created their own leisure and subsidizes their nihilism, and the rest of us who lack their awareness and thus are unthinking cogs in a huge monotonous wheel. For the postmodernist, Middle America lacks the romance of the poor of the inner city that is never visited and the high culture of the Upper West Side or Georgetown that is prized...
You know how Karl Marx claimed that history occurs twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as comedy? I have to say that when you consider the tragic loss of life spawned by the Communist vision around the globe and, in our time, the unintentionally hilarious nonsense engendered by the Frankfurt School ("triggers," "microaggressions," "white privilege," the cult of victimhood and the rest of that crapola), you have to admit that old Karl kind of, sort of, got it right.
Ironically, though, it is these later lunacies, silly as they are, and not old school Communism (which went down to defeat decades ago, not long after a Republican implored a Communist to "tear down that wall!"), that are helping pave the decline and fall of the West.
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Zazi, originally from Afghanistan, had admitted receiving bomb-making and weapons training from al-Qaeda in Pakistan's Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan, but no explosives were found in the New York case.
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Ahmad, who allegedly was the "facilitator" keeping in touch with Zazi by email, oversaw the preparations, the indictment alleges.
In a final email just before leaving on his failed mission to New York from Colorado, Zazi allegedly wrote to Ahmad saying "the marriage is ready", alleged code that the plot was primed.
The New York plot was linked to the British plot by Ahmad, prosecutors said. Ahmad, an accused al-Qaeda facilitator in Peshawar, Pakistan, communicated with Zazi about the New York plot and with Naseer about a British plot.
Naseer and Rehman were among 12 men detained on terrorism charges after a raid in northwest England in April 2009.
Officials said they found surveillance photos of public areas in Manchester, but the authorities did not have enough evidence to charge the men and they were released.
Naseer was arrested again in Britain on Wednesday and is awaiting extradition to the US.
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This project was super fun and didn't take long to make.
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(13) 2×4x8 ( frame and seating )
(1) 2×6 ( top piece where I put the name)
Overall dimensions are 60" w x 36" H x 27" deep
I just needed a place to sit while I grill the dinner in the summer and have a beer .
Although I know that pocket hole joinery is not considered to be a preferred woodworking joint I used it on this project because of 2 reasons there quick and I didn't have all that much time to make the bench and the second reason is that it's easy to keep everything square using this method especially when your working alone.
I used the Milescraft router sign system to route the name .. it's an easy system to use but I don't like that the bushings and letter templates are plastic and found for some reason the guide judging for some reason burnt right through the bit that they game me… I will have to look at this or perhaps I should just hand carve my next sign.
I just bought a new belt sander and it worked a treat extremely powerful for a Ryobi and then I just used my random orbital sander to make the wood as smooth as a baby ass
Anyway thanks for looking
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#1 posted 07-12-2017 10:59 PM
It's functional and it's done. No longer just a wish. That isn't always true of the projects we work on.
#2 posted 07-12-2017 11:36 PM
Thanks , I will look up that Garden Cart
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#3 posted 07-13-2017 03:37 AM
Good solid project, no need for sexy joinery. That said I have a friend that made one using finger joints. Yeah it looked cool until his wife wanted it painted. LOL
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Peshawar, Feb 22: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly here Tuesday constituted a special committee to probe the alleged sexual harassment of girl students by the teachers at the University of Peshawar (UoP) and award exemplary punishment to the "black sheep" earning a bad name for their noble profession.
Deputy Speaker Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi announced the names of the special committee members headed by the Chief Minister's Adviser on Higher Education Mushtaq Ghani. He made the announcement after a threadbare discussion on the adjournment motion of Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s Nighat Orakzai.
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The mover, Nighat Orakzai, observed that the girl students were being sexually harassed by the teachers at the University of Peshawar. She said this was causing concern to the parents as the harassment had been taking place for the last several years.
She recalled that she had raised this issue in 2011 as it was ruining universities and the girl students were saying goodbye to education.
The PPP lawmaker reminded that the issue was discussed during the tenure of the previous ANP-PPP government, but action couldn't be taken against the accused as by then the assembly's term had expired.
She asked the PTI-led government to take strict action against the "black sheep" in the teaching profession and save the future of the innocent students.
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Oh, business. Sometimes it feels like everything's going swimmingly, the next that nothing can go right. The sad reality of being a business owner is that most of them cease to exist within a few years of being established. However, that alone shouldn't be a reason to be cautious that yours might go the same way. It all comes down to numbers, and specifically how you respond to any falling profits. Below, we take a look at five of the all too common reasons a company might find themselves in difficulty.
1. Your Competition Is Too Strong
As much as you'd like to think otherwise, you are not the only business offering whichever products or services you offer. The nature of capitalism dictates that there'll always be competition, always someone new trying to take away some of your business. Normally, this is healthy, but sometimes it can be outright terrible, as in the case when the competition is too strong. If you're finding yourself being outmuscled by another business in your town or online, you'll need to find ways to offer something they don't and become competitive again.
2. Not Enough Cash To Hand
It takes a lot of money to keep a company afloat. Alas, if you want to get ahead, then you also need to spend money to fuel that growth. If you're routinely having cash flow problems, then it'll only be a matter of time before you're falling behind. The good news is that you probably have more money in your business than you think you do; it's just tied up in your equipment or buildings. Try to get an asset-based loan and free up some equity that you can then use to move forward.
3. Your Customers Don't Know You're There
While it's important that you keep hold of the customers you already have, it's imperative that you also try to bring new customers on board too. But if your potential customers don't know that you're out there, then they're not potential customers; they're just people, spending money with your rivals. Make yourself as visible as possible. Work with an SEO company and put yourself toward the top of the Google rankings. Hold and sponsor events in your local community. Do whatever it takes to get yourself heard!
4. A Poorly Assembled Team
You're only as strong as your weakest link. If you have a team of workers that don't quite gel together, then you'll have a poor productivity output, and maybe even be putting customers off from using you. Moving forward, change your hiring process so that you always end up with the right person for the job. In the meantime, you should train your current staff.
5. There's No Vision
Finally, many businesses fail because they lack vision. Forget yesterday; it's gone. Focus on tomorrow and what's up ahead, instead. If you always keep one eye on the future, you can ensure the long-term growth of your company. Just don't forget to keep the other eye on the hear and now!


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In one of his parables, Jesus declared that the kingdom of God is like a grain of mustard seed that grows to become a tree "larger than all the garden plants" (Mark 8:30-32). Today, we live in a time when Jesus' words have become reality. Christianity is the only global religion in both numbers and geographical presence. Because of the love and sacrifice of dedicated Christians over the last 200 years, authentic Christ-followers live and work in every major city of the world today. This facilitates the next step in the growth of the mustard tree: Marketplace Ministry.
Read the report at: Mobilizing Courageous Ambassadors (7mb)


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Are children permitted at your inn?
Children 5+ are welcome at our inn. We have 5 "family" rooms (8, 19, 22, 31, 32) that accommodate well behaved children between the ages of 5-9. The remaining rooms only accommodate children 10+. Please contact us for details. For the safety and comfort of all guests, children must be supervised at all times. Running through the inn and jumping down the steps are not permitted. We do not accept children under 5, including infants.
Can we arrive early?
You may arrive as early as 12pm on arrival day to obtain beach tags and parking passes. Room keys are not issued before 2pm.
Can we have a late check-out or early check-in?
Check in is from 2pm-6pm. If you would like an early check in or late check out, you must arrange this service 24-48 hours prior to arrival, for an additional charge. Also, if you will be arriving later than 6 pm, you must notify us in advance for alternative arrangements. Typically during June, July, and August this policy is not changed, however, during the "shoulder" seasons when we have less guests, this policy may be adjusted at our discretion.
Do you have an elevator/elevators?
Unfortunately, we are a historic building that has good old-fashioned staircases. We will be happy to assist you with your bags, but if stairs are an issue this may not be the right property for your needs while on vacation. We'll be happy to help you find a property that can accommodate your needs.
What is the tax?
Guests of The Scarborough Inn Bed & Breakfast are required to pay a 6.625% New Jersey sales tax and a 5% Hotel tax.
Do you offer group discounts?
Yes, in fact, we've hosted many family/group reunions; we offer discounts for guests that book 3 or more rooms (2+ night stays). Call for details.
Can I show my friend the room?
Only registered guests are permitted in the rooms. However, friends or family (staying elsewhere) of guests are sometimes permitted to use the porch and living room as availability permits. Also, with a prior arrangement, we'll be happy to have a staff member give non-registered guests a tour of the inn. Please ask the front desk if this option is available during your stay.
Can I use the outside showers after check out?
Registered Guests who have checked out and moved their cars are permitted to use the outside showers/changing stall and the ground floor bathrooms. Please do not bring friends or family who stayed elsewhere. We do not provide towels after check-out, so plan accordingly.
Do you offer Parking?
Yes we offer free off-street parking on site. We are two blocks from the beach and heart of the boardwalk, and three blocks from the heart of the shopping and dining district (Asbury Avenue). You can pretty much park your car and walk everywhere from the Scarborough Inn Bed & Breakfast. Some oversized vehicles may not be permitted to park in our lot. Please call for details.
Do you offer free use of beach tags?
Yes, we offer free use of seasonal beach tags from 12pm on arrival day until check out. Room keys are not handed out until 2 p.m. To ensure all arriving guests have a beach tag, departing guests must return the beach tags at check out. Guests who do not return beach tags upon check out will be charged a non-refundable fee of $35.
Why do you charge a late check in fee? What is the fee?
We are a bed and breakfast; therefore, we are not required to have a fully staffed desk 24/7. With that said, we close the desk at 6 pm or after our last check in, whichever comes first. If you will be arriving after 6 pm, you will need to call us directly to make arrangements for check in. The person on call will be happy to greet you and check you in until 10 pm. WE DO NOT CHARGE A FEE prior to 10 pm. After 10 pm, there is a $50 (plus tax) late check in fee. We wake up daily at 530 am to begin preparing our popular breakfast and coffee service, and we need our sleep so that we can perform at our highest level during your stay. 🙂
What happens if we leave something behind after check out?
Please call us at 609-399-1558 and describe the item to the best of your ability. We will check with our staff. If we find it, our policy is to ship the item C.O.D. either First Class (least expensive) or Priority Mail (fastest), depending on your preference. We will also ask you to respond to an email stating that you agree for us to charge your credit card the entire shipping fee, should you not accept our shipment, or you fail to claim the shipment at the Post Office within 10 days. There is a handling/materials fee added to the cost of postage. The fee is dependent on the complexity of the shipping, and/or the materials needed to ship your item. We maintain a "lost and found" bin for 30 days; after this time, we will recycle, donate, or discard the item(s) in the best manner possible.


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Sesnon Underground Mission Statement
The Sesnon Underground is an experimental educational space where UCSC students are given the opportunity to exhibit their own bodies of work. Affiliated with the Sesnon Art Gallery in Porter College, the Sesnon Underground serves as a student run space. Artists are entrusted with the responsibility of curating, installing and marketing their own shows with the assistance and facilitation of the Sesnon Gallery. The Sesnon Underground offers a hands-on educational space for the UCSC community and welcomes students of all disciplines to engage in the experience of the space.
If you are a student and are interested in having an exhibition please contact us at email@example.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I apply to have an exhibition in the Sesnon Underground?
A: A written proposal is required for all applicants which will be evaluated by the Underground Committee. Please email all applications as word documents to the Underground Committee at: email@example.com
Q: What should my proposal for my exhibition consist of?
A: Your proposal should consist of an artist statement (typically one cogent page) defining what you are hoping to accomplish within your exhibition, five examples of past and present work, your projected graduation year and, if applicable, a drawing of the proposed installation.
Q: Will any funding be available for my exhibition?
A: Currently there is no funding available for student exhibitions provided by the Mary Porter Sesnon or Underground galleries. All students are encouraged to apply to campus grants for exhibition funding.
Q: How long will my show run?
A: The average length of a Sesnon Underground exhibition is two weeks. This includes the time necessary for installation/deinstallation of your show. If you want to hold an opening or closing reception it needs to be held on a Friday, as there are class conflicts on other weekdays due to the wall that the Underground shares with the classroom space next door.
Q: Will the Underground space be ready for me to exhibit my work once I am ready to install?
A: Yes. After each exhibition, student artists are expected to restore the space to its former state. Failure to completely and fully restore the Underground may result in the forfeiting of the retained security deposit. The Underground is maintained on a daily level by gallery attendants, who regularly sweep and mop the floors. The space is prepped and painted once per quarter by the Underground Committee members.
Q: How do I gain access of the Underground space once I am ready to install?
A: Upon being accepted to exhibit work in the Underground space, an Underground Committee member will retain a $50 security deposit, which will be exchanged for a key to the Underground space.
Q: Will the necessary tools for installation/deinstallation of my exhibition be provided for me?
A: Yes, the Sesnon Gallery can provide you with the basic tools such as drills, levels, mounting tools, spackling compound, etc. Please contact the Underground Committee for more details on available tools and supplies at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Q: How will I know my art will be secure in the gallery?
A: The Sesnon Underground is open during the same hours as the main Sesnon Gallery. A gallery attendant will open and close the space but there will not be an attendant on duty in the space at all times. It is your responsibility to secure your own work and the Mary Porter Sesnon nor the Underground galleries can not be responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged work.
Q: Who is responsible for the press surrounding my show?
A: You are. We will be happy to post information about your exhibition on the Sesnon Gallery Facebook, but the bulk of the press surrounding your show will be your responsibility. The Sesnon Underground staff can direct you to local printers and give you advice as to how to best promote your show if you would like.
Q: Who is responsible for organizing and running the opening reception?
A: You are. A gallery attendant will not be provided for your reception so it is your responsibility to clean up and lock the space afterwards. For documentation of previous exhibitions http://art.ucsc.edu/sesnon/sesnon-underground
Click here to see Sesnon Underground Schedule & Archive page


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See where the stars ended up last night.
- Andy Roddick, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Kelly Choi, Katie Lee, and Alex McCord attended the 11th Annual BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis event [Zimbio]
- Dabney Mercer partied at the Water Club in Atlantic City [dabneymercer]
- Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Hannah Storm hit the premiere of "Unmatched" at Tribeca Cinemas. The film, which Storm produced, captures the on-court rivlary, and off-court friendship of the two tennis legends as part of ESPN's "30 for 30" series [NPR]
- Nina Freudenberger prepared for a trip to Europe [nfreudenberger]
- Teresa Giudice, Dina Manzo and Caroline Manzo of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" attended auditions for "My Big Gay Italian Wedding" at St. Luke's Theater [ ]
- Model Yaya Dacosta was on hand for makeup artist AJ Crimson's birthday celebration [wireimage]


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Hi all,
I've installed MySQL on an old Win XP PC. I want users on our internal network to be able to connect to it from their PCs.
However, when I try to connect to the remote PC (using HeidiSQL) I get the following message:
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The IP address on the server is correct. I can connect locally on the server using HeidSQL.
What do I need to do to connect to the remote PC?
I don't have any tables on the remote. I've tried to connect as 'root' and as 'Skip' (a user I created).


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Horror Scary Ladies Seed of Chucky Doll Dress
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Film & Sound tool – Mindlab Denmark
The presentation of citizens' experiences creates empathy for decision-makers and is a strong springboard for the development of better ideas at workshops. The work in ministries is often full of abstraction, and meetings that remain abstract, which rarely results in concrete solutions. Using short audio or movie clips we have learned that; they always stimulate empathy, commitment and drive, and are a great way to get participants at a workshop to discuss a topic and then think in specific solutions. Mindlab is an inter-ministry government innovation lab that invents, develops and experiments with new ways to find and define problems as well as new approaches to solving them in a relevant and effective manner.


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Today?s college graduates are in love with their technology, and we sure don?t blame them. What?s not to like about it? Smartphones, iPads, and laptops keep an entire generation plugged in like never before. We would like to issue a word of warning when it comes to online stock trading, though. Over-leveraged positions and instantaneous trading decisions require a system that never fails and, as we all know, the Internet ain?t that. It has always come with a frustrating foul-up factor and will stab you in the back faster than that girl (or guy) you dumped in high school.
The very nature of the old-fashioned method of interacting with the stock market created a sort of forced patience that, for better or worse, left investors with a portfolio better suited for long-term thinking. In case you haven?t taken a look lately, things have changed a bit. Thanks to the Internet, instantaneous worldwide news distribution, and push button home trading software, anyone with a few hundred dollars to spare can open an account with one of the ubiquitous online brokers like Scottrade and start trading stocks, mutual funds, or currency like a squirrel on Red Bull. Heck, you can buy or sell hundreds of times a day if your trigger finger is fast enough.
As Jason Hartman notes, the Internet has changed the nature of the stock market considerably. This is all fine except sometimes the Internet crashes. Other times it is manipulated by government officials who decide an information blackout is preferable to allowing the people to know what?s really going on in the halls of power (Hello China and Egypt. Syria, we?re watching you).
The bottom line is that for all the whiz bang devices we carry around to stay connected ? Wi-Fi, smartphones, anything from Apple ? it all relies on a physical infrastructure that is oh-so-precariously perched on the precipice of disaster. Build in as much redundancy as you want but a simple car crash in rural Iowa can still take Internet service away from 14,000 people for several hours. Maybe days.
How much damage could be done to an overleveraged day trading portfolio while crews are scratching their heads and piecing fiber-optic cables back together? It could be disastrous to your finances. This is why day trading on the back of the Internet feels a little like gambling to us. You might as well take it to Vegas and let it all ride on #23. You might lose everything but at least you get to eat at the free lobster buffett.
Ultimately this is why we still recommend real estate for those more interested in building long-term wealth and less interested in dying poor with an ulcer-ridden collection of internal organs.?(Top image: Flickr | Lars Plougman)
* Read more from Young Wealth
3 Reasons it's Tough for the First-Time Home Buyer
Trump University vs. The State of New York
The Young Wealth Team


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June 24, 2009
On the right is the on-ramp to Route 91 in MA that my mom and I always took to go up to VT. When I was learning how to drive, we would share the driving to VT; I would drive from our MA house to Route 91, she would drive up Route 91 to Brattleboro, and then I would resume driving from Brattleboro to our VT house. This division of labor worked well because I was nervous to drive on the highway. Now, after almost 3 years in LA, I'm not afraid of Route 91, and think the two lanes look kind of like an on-ramp to the 405 (except with fewer cars).
June 24, 2015
I'll always think of my mom while driving up to VT, but now I'm fully comfortable driving the whole way!
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I completed this photo project from May 2009 to May 2010. Six years later, I'm reposting the series with additional thoughts. Here's what I wrote about it when I started.