. . . that John Roberts sexually harassed me once? He did it by drinking a can of Coke.

I was very tramautized after that; I couldn't work for a week afterward. I just lay in bed drinking Diet Dr. Pepper and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from my childhood.

But now I'm over it. I'll buy a bitchin' new dress, and then I'll alert the media.

UPDATE: Enough with the e-mails. I don't happen to know the truth of what happened between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. I do think men do some crazy things when they're young and horny, and I suspect that Thomas was attracted to Hill. But if she kept her own counsel and followed him from job to job, I do think continuing her silence would have been the classy thing.

In fact, she helped to raise public consciousness about the evils of sexual harassment. I wish I could count that as a victory, as such abuses of power have always bothered me. The truth is, our present situation is a mixed blessing, wherein men often feel that the slightest acknowledgement that they are heterosexual may subject them to disciplinary action or lawsuits at any time.

In other words, the pendulum has swung too far.

We'll never know what Thomas said to Hill, or how bad it really was. But I'm grateful to have him on the Court. I do believe he's the closest thing to a libertarian on SCOTUS.

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