You do know that those robes come with interior pockets, don’t you?
Getting less popular has been my experience with flaccidity as well.
She looks to me like she is biting her tongue.
I sure hope she doesn’t continue to do so.
You know that he already swore a loyalty oath to Donny Big-Bucket
I can’t imagine what about his life in suburban Maryland, country clubs, being a sportsball bro, being white, male, etc. etc. gave him this warped perspective.
Just Do It.
Drink Some Beer.
I can hear Kavanaugh saying “Because of these accusations, I now live in a van down by the river.”
You know, after his wife divorces him, I’d be fine with that.
how about some freaking empathy?
he’s worried this will “ruin his life” because he won’t get to be part of one of the most powerful institutions in this country?
boo hoo. lots of us don’t get what we want, even when we work hard for it.
meanwhile, several women have had meaningful negative lifelong trauma caused by - if not him ( yeah right ) - than by one of his peers?
and he feels he has no caulpability for those peers? no recognition of the harm done? has taken no actions to change that environment he came from?
someone who cares about the multiple crimes committed wouldn’t act like he just did.
even if he isn’t guilty, he doesn’t deserve to be on the supreme court.
Lee Ving, is that you?
He prided himself on being an asshole (and perhaps still does)( I never believed it)… not that big of an asshole I don’t think.
When I saw them was the first time I ever saw someone really get gobbed.
Mr. Ving was soaked.
Even if his punk persona was completely true to life, still less of an asshole than K, but that’s admittedly rather faint praise.
(1) This links to the abstract of Warren Galea’s bachelor thesis from 2012, University of Malta, titled Kafkaesque affinities in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
The full text is not accessible via the link directly. Kafka is a bit of a hobby horse for me and the abstract is intriguing, so I have requested a copy of the full text. It looks like the requests are processed manually. It’s also not clear whether the request will be handled by someone at the university or the author, or what the terms and conditions for obtaining the text are. I don’t expect to hear from Malta until next week. We’ll see. Anyway, thanks for the link.
(2) The abstract reads
Praised as ‘the best novel to come out of anywhere in years,’ Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) - a work suspended between different genres which include satire, comedy and the absurd, shares an undeniable link with the cultural phenomenon that is the Kafkaesque. The starting point of this dissertation therefore, is a cultural and critical investigation of what this iconic but still somewhat elusive concept entails; taking into account its relationship to the work of Franz Kafka as well as its efficiency as one of the most powerful allegories of present day social and cultural realities. This discussion serves as a springboard to a close observation of the different ways in which the postmodern Heller reiterates, reworks and in some ways even reverses the vision of the Modern Kafka; a study which will demonstrate how, while both writers articulate a bleak vision of an absurd, overbureaucratized society that imposes a man-made madness onto its subjects, the Kafkaesque springs forth its progeny - the Helleresque.
(3) To me it seems like it is a bit of a stretch to use this to support the claim that the term “kafkaesque” has been in use since the 1930ies.
To the best of my knowledge, the term “kafkaesque” first appeared in print in a 1939 issue of Direction magazine.
(4) Kafka wasn’t that well known outside (German speaking) literary circles before WW II. Writers, critics, intellectuals like, if you’ll excuse the name-dropping, Musil, Hesse, Benjamin or Tucholsky knew about (or actually knew) Kafka in the 1920ies. International fame developed after 1945, starting in the USA and France, moving on to German speaking countries in the 1950ies. In the Eastern bloc, Kafka was more or less banned until the official end of Stalinism, i.e. well into the 1960ies.
[Paraphrased from:
Manfred Engel, Bernd Auerochs (Hrsg.): Kafka-Handbuch . Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2010, S. XII
and
Michael Pullmann: Franz Kafka. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, http://www.kafka.uni-bonn.de ]
As I read from @emrazz on twitter -
“Brock Turners grow up to be Brett Kavanaughs who make the rules for Brock Turners.”
I’m staying put. No one is running me out of my country. As for 2016, No Bernie, no deal. Well, no Bernie. I wrote him in anyway. California already plumped for mrs. goldman-sachs paid speech giver. Electoral college and all, ya, know.
In California, you can get away with that. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan not so much. Problem is, in those states, they probably thought they were blue enough to get away with it, and now we have the orange clown and his crew. We cannot afford this in November. I abhor purity tests. Any Democrat will reflect your values far better than any Republican. We need to take back our country. Start with congess.
Because a write in vote is soooo effective. You are not helping. Also not everyone posting here is American. They may be green card holders thinking maybe it is time get the fuck out of dodge before it goes from worse to total failure.
California here, once the primary was over, I would be one more superfluous vote. Also my vote is do as I please and I did. Also will continue to do. No way am I voting for Feinstein or deLeon in November.
