And here's where the lawyerly question comes in. There's a difference between losing bits and pieces of memory to drinking and blacking out. Almost everyone who has a night of drinking gets a little memory impairment. Everyone doesn't black out.
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Kavanaugh gets asked a lot about his memory in the hearing. Most of his answers come across as denying that he had ever "forgotten an *evening* after drinking" (to quote Coons). That might be a lie but every college/HS drinker is different and I don't think you can assume it is.
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Mitchell asking him about waking up somewhere else in different clothes, etc., falls squarely into this blackout category. So do others. But she also asks him, "when you would be drinking, did anyone ever tell you about something that you did not remember?" And he says no.
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To me that's the most dubious of all the drinking answers. Since everyone loses a little memory it's less likely to be true than the no-blackout answer, esp. since he does seem to joke about memory loss on other occasions.
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I think it's the case where he's most likely to be lying or using a technical definition of "tell you about something" -- thinking, "okay, I probably lost a memory here or there but I can't remember anyone specifically saying, 'hey, Brett, remember this thing that happened...'"
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I'm less convinced by Silver's final example, where he calls it "extremely implausible" that BK says answer "basically no" to Coons' Q about becoming "aggressive" while drunk. To me "aggressive" is such an elastic word, and BK's under examination about attempted rape ...
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... so I think he could reasonably say that he thinks he's answering a Q about physical aggression, not just getting noisy or argumentative or something. And one tossed drink at a New Haven bar doesn't, to me, establish a pattern of frequent drunken physical aggression.
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Ross Douthat Retweeted Del Quentin Wilber
Finally boofing/Devil's Triangle/Renate. We have at least one later G-Town alum, a reporter, saying that "boofing" referred to farting. Not dispositive but certainly a reason to think it might be true.https://twitter.com/DelWilber/status/1045421183926247430 …
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Devil's Triangle I am agnostic. Renate, I think he's probably lying when he says "alumnius" did not refer to sex; at best I think it had multiple implications (that she was a fall-back date for all of them for dances, say) but I can't believe it didn't have a sexual connotation.
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So there you have it. I think he lied at least once. I find his blackout/pass out distinction plausible but not the extent to which he denied memory loss of any kind. I don't agree w/Silver's reading of a number of cases. This is an analytic thread, no conclusions will be drawn.
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Funeral Paul Hundred Retweeted Funeral Paul Hundred
Let’s be real thohttps://twitter.com/paul_hundred/status/1046837323277766656 …
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