Okay People, Get a Grip

Having spent the weekend on a fairly liberal US University campus--Parent's weekend, LOL, there really wasn't much commotion. Other than posters all over the place, all promoting exactly the side one would expect them to promote, the place was very quiet.

For those outraged by it all, here are a few facts:

A conservative justice was replaced by...a conservative justice. What!

1. Yes, it is true: Anthony Kennedy was nominated by Ronald Reagan and sure, he was a swing vote on some key cases, but (and this is really important) he chose to retire while Trump was president.

2. What did you expect would happen? Republicans control the Senate and the White House. Did you think they would put a liberal into the Supreme Court?

3. "But Kavanaugh is a rapist"! is what I have heard many times from opponents of the pick.

"How do you know that"? I ask.

They always reply, "Women don't lie about things like that"

"Really"? "There are exactly two people on the planet who know what happened, Ford and Kavanaugh".

"This is true". They will reluctantly agree. "And yet you are a woman, who stated with some degree of certainty just now, that a man you never met is a rapist". Are you still sure women never lie?