Elena Kagan, sportswriter

[finishthehat]

Among the articles she listed herself as author of in her Senate questionnaire http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/ElenaKagan-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf :

1978 football outlook includes great expectations

Baseball overcomes Manhattan 11-7

Hungry Tigers seek to upset Rutgers

Yale, Tigers prepare for clash: Football to confront Bulldogs in battle for Ivy League lead


(No word on whether she wrote the heds.)

 

[Guy_Incognito]

These are weird:

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in
1999, I listed membership in the U.S. Association of Constitutional Lawyers, ABA
Forum on Communications Law, and the Society of American Law Teachers, but I have
no current memory of belonging to or participating in these organizations.

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial
nomination in 1999, I listed membership in the National Partnership for Women
and Families as a result of charitable contributions. I have no current memory of
whether such contributions ever made me a member of this organization.

 

[dog428]

These are weird:

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in
1999, I listed membership in the U.S. Association of Constitutional Lawyers, ABA
Forum on Communications Law, and the Society of American Law Teachers, but I have
no current memory of belonging to or participating in these organizations.

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial
nomination in 1999, I listed membership in the National Partnership for Women
and Families as a result of charitable contributions. I have no current memory of
whether such contributions ever made me a member of this organization.

... and meaningless.

 

[Ace]

Surprised she didn't put BBWA or APSE.

 

[poindexter]

These are weird:

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in
1999, I listed membership in the U.S. Association of Constitutional Lawyers, ABA
Forum on Communications Law, and the Society of American Law Teachers, but I have
no current memory of belonging to or participating in these organizations.

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial
nomination in 1999, I listed membership in the National Partnership for Women
and Families as a result of charitable contributions. I have no current memory of
whether such contributions ever made me a member of this organization.

What does this mean? That she is a serial liar?

 

[User 4332]

Links to some of the sports articles:

AD search yields potential candidates
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-12-8-78.pdf

Yale, Tigers prepare for clash: Football to confront Bulldogs in battle for Ivy League lead
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-11-9-79.pdf

Football goes undefeated over break: Humiliates Penn 21-0
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-11-6-78.pdf

Powerful Yale hands skaters 7-4 loss in game at Ingalls rink
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-11-29-78.pdf

Football bows to Bulldog jinx, 35-10
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-11-12-79.pdf

Scarlet Knights bury football, 38-
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/upload/12a-dp-10-1-79.pdf

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The lede on her Rutgers gamer should get her nominated to the supreme court of hacky cliches.

 

[User 4332]

The lede on her Rutgers gamer should get her nominated to the supreme court of hacky cliches.

I cringe at the thought of someone dissecting stories I wrote for the college paper 20 years from now. It almost makes me feel bad for federal judges that they have to provide copies of all these things.

 

[Bob Cook]

Well, now we KNOW she's a lesbian.

(Just kidding! Ha ha!)

 

[novelist_wannabe]

These are weird:

In a questionnaire I submitted to the Senate in connection with a judicial nomination in
1999, I listed membership in the U.S. Association of Constitutional Lawyers, ABA
Forum on Communications Law, and the Society of American Law Teachers, but I have
no current memory of belonging to or participating in these organizations.

Anyone else reminded of George O'Leary here?

 

[poindexter]

She's a flat out liar. [/Al Davis]

 

[Boom_70]

Next we'll find out that she claimed service in Viet Nam

 

[YankeeFan]

Well, now we KNOW she's a lesbian.

(Just kidding! Ha ha!)

Ah, I was going to make that joke, but figured it would be better received from someone else.

 

[Boom_70]

Maureen Dowd has been driving at something in her last two columns but not sure what. Todays- "All the Single Ladies" : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?ref=opinion

 

[dooley_womack1]

Did she cover softball?

 

[YankeeFan]

Maureen Dowd has been driving at something in her last two columns but not sure what. Todays- "All the Single Ladies" : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?ref=opinion

Well, I tried to make the point the other day that "single" and "unmarried" are not necessarily the same thing.

Andrew Sullivan also found the Times profile odd:

The New York Times ran a 4,500-word profile last week in which — again — not a single stand of any note could be discerned. The piece was full of anecdotes — she argued with her rabbi at her bat mitzvah, she left her car engine running in her garage overnight because she was so absent-minded, she smokes cigars, she plays softball — that were so artfully constructed to make her seem wonderful without revealing anything of any substance that another of the paper’s writers noted: “She seems to be smart, impressive and honest — and in her willingness to suppress so much of her mind for the sake of her career, kind of disturbing.”

There was one other strange thing about 4,500 words of profile — no mention of any private life. She is unmarried, and apparently has no anecdotes of dates, no ex-boyfriends or girlfriends, no romantic interludes ... nothing. In 4,500 words, we do not find out even where she lives or has lived or if she lives alone. (But we do know what her brothers do for a living — teaching). The far right has already identified her as a “lesbian homosexual”; and the gay blogosphere openly discussed her alleged lesbianism weeks ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article7127574.ece

 

[cyclingwriter]

Maureen Dowd has been driving at something in her last two columns but not sure what. Todays- "All the Single Ladies" : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?ref=opinion

Well, I tried to make the point the other day that "single" and "unmarried" are not necessarily the same thing.

Andrew Sullivan also found the Times profile odd:

The New York Times ran a 4,500-word profile last week in which — again — not a single stand of any note could be discerned. The piece was full of anecdotes — she argued with her rabbi at her bat mitzvah, she left her car engine running in her garage overnight because she was so absent-minded, she smokes cigars, she plays softball — that were so artfully constructed to make her seem wonderful without revealing anything of any substance that another of the paper’s writers noted: “She seems to be smart, impressive and honest — and in her willingness to suppress so much of her mind for the sake of her career, kind of disturbing.”

There was one other strange thing about 4,500 words of profile — no mention of any private life. She is unmarried, and apparently has no anecdotes of dates, no ex-boyfriends or girlfriends, no romantic interludes ... nothing. In 4,500 words, we do not find out even where she lives or has lived or if she lives alone. (But we do know what her brothers do for a living — teaching). The far right has already identified her as a “lesbian homosexual”; and the gay blogosphere openly discussed her alleged lesbianism weeks ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article7127574.ece

That is an interesting question and may be something for the journalism topics board. I know when I was writing for a daily, I was assigned to do a story on a female athletic director who was battling cancer. She was past 50, never married, had short hair and acted like a "guy." However, she is not "out." It was a question of what to ask. It made for a crappy story on my part because I didn't want to get into details of her life. My editor was mad because I didn't have things such as if she lives alone, where she lived, if she had pets. My response at the time was I wouldn't have asked an umarried male ad the same questions. Years later, I am not so sure.

 

[Boom_70]

Maureen Dowd has been driving at something in her last two columns but not sure what. Todays- "All the Single Ladies" : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?ref=opinion

Well, I tried to make the point the other day that "single" and "unmarried" are not necessarily the same thing.

Andrew Sullivan also found the Times profile odd:

The New York Times ran a 4,500-word profile last week in which — again — not a single stand of any note could be discerned. The piece was full of anecdotes — she argued with her rabbi at her bat mitzvah, she left her car engine running in her garage overnight because she was so absent-minded, she smokes cigars, she plays softball — that were so artfully constructed to make her seem wonderful without revealing anything of any substance that another of the paper’s writers noted: “She seems to be smart, impressive and honest — and in her willingness to suppress so much of her mind for the sake of her career, kind of disturbing.”

There was one other strange thing about 4,500 words of profile — no mention of any private life. She is unmarried, and apparently has no anecdotes of dates, no ex-boyfriends or girlfriends, no romantic interludes ... nothing. In 4,500 words, we do not find out even where she lives or has lived or if she lives alone. (But we do know what her brothers do for a living — teaching). The far right has already identified her as a “lesbian homosexual”; and the gay blogosphere openly discussed her alleged lesbianism weeks ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article7127574.ece

That is an interesting question and may be something for the journalism topics board. I know when I was writing for a daily, I was assigned to do a story on a female athletic director who was battling cancer. She was past 50, never married, had short hair and acted like a "guy." However, she is not "out." It was a question of what to ask. It made for a crappy story on my part because I didn't want to get into details of her life. My editor was mad because I didn't have things such as if she lives alone, where she lived, if she had pets. My response at the time was I wouldn't have asked an umarried male ad the same questions. Years later, I am not so sure.

Did she have cats. Did she drive a Subaru

 

[sportsguydave]

Maureen Dowd has been driving at something in her last two columns but not sure what. Todays- "All the Single Ladies" : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?ref=opinion

Even Maureen Dowd never seems to be sure what she's driving at these days. Since she's not a member of the Beltway inner circle any more with the Obamas in town, she doesn't seem to have a lot to offer on much of anything.

 

[Armchair_QB]

After reading the thread title I was expecting a picture of her with a mustard stain on her blouse.