{"id":11589,"date":"2010-10-27T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2010-10-27T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T20:30:38","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cclarence-thomas-video-club%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11589","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cClarence Thomas Video Club\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/thomas.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Clarence Thomas Video Club\" src=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/thomas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>I have always been appalled by the amount of blind hatred directed at Anita Hill merely because she spoke up about being sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. So I confess to enjoying the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_upshot\/20101022\/pl_yblog_upshot\/ex-girlfriend-dishes-dirt-on-clarence-thomas\" >outpouring<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/10\/27\/anita_hill_clarence_thomas\/index.html\" >corroborating evidence<\/a> in the wake of Ginny Thomas&#8217;s ill-fated voicemail to Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I have no problem with Supreme Court justices having a few kinks. They can watch all the porn they want, though I prefer not to think about it. But to give someone who harassed his female subordinates (at the EEOC!) a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, where he would be responsible for adjudicating on those very issues&#8230; well, it&#8217;s unconscionable. Also, dude totally perjured himself!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of Serious Pundits (such as the flaccid Richard Cohen of the Post) are saying we should just forget the whole unseemly episode. I guess talking about pubic hair on Coke cans doesn&#8217;t seem very dignified. But as far as I&#8217;m concerned, you only get dignity when you correct the injustice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been appalled by the amount of blind hatred directed at Anita Hill merely because she spoke up about being sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. So I confess to enjoying the outpouring of corroborating evidence in the wake of Ginny Thomas&#8217;s ill-fated voicemail to Hill.<br \/>\nNow, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I have no problem [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}