portrait of the judge as a young entitled frat boy

During the past two or three months, I've probably seen at least 20 or 30 films and, each time, I've had to sit through that same damn trailer for Bradley Cooper's "A Star Is Born." I. Can't. Take. It. Anymore.

That said, not one of those 20-odd films has been as compelling or as perversely entertaining as the on-going, relentless "Trump Show," which is available 24/7 on every television set in our home. The latest episode of the reality series was Thursday's pointless hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to accommodate (and presumably placate) a woman charging Trump's Supreme Court nominee with an alleged sexual assault.

It was like a bad traffic accident: You didn't want to watch but you couldn't look away. The showstopper, so to speak, was the afforentioned nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who stormed into the Senate chambers like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Or, given his afflilation, an elephant.

His barking, bulging veins and sneers prompted the various pundits commenting on the show to compare him to Trump. And Trump approved, deeming the performance "incredible." But his demeanor was actually closer to a drunk. And Trump, of course, is noted for avoiding alcohol. Anyway, I lost count of how many times the word "beer" was invoked.

The highlight of his performance came when  Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked Kavanaugh if he ever had so much to drink that he “couldn’t remember what happened or part of what happened the night before.”

“No, I remember what happened,” Kavanaugh retorted, before gratuitously adding, “and I think you’ve probably had beers, Senator.”

“So you’re saying there’s never been a case where you drank so much that you didn’t remember what happened the night before or part of what happened?,” Klobuchar asked

“You’re talking about blackout. I don’t know. Have you?” Kavanaugh then sat back with a snarky grin on his face and a self-satisfied air.

Wow. Real mature. Real Supreme Court material here.

Following a break, he apologized to Klobuchar. Well, sort of.

The Senate clearly positioned Kavanaugh to be the day's star attraction. His opening act was Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the psychology professor who alleged that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her in 1982 when he was 17 and she was 15. Dr. Ford's performance was the polar opposite of Kavanaugh's - soft-spoken, humble, relatable and, more to the point, likable. Her authenticity made her the immediate anti-Trump.

In a world where this one reality show is broadcast on all 9,354 cable channels, it's a safe bet that we will be seeing a lot more of Brett Kavanaugh and almost nothing of Dr. Ford whose character, I hear, has already been written off the show after her one appearance.

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~Brett Kavanaugh, TV's newest star

~Christine Blasey Ford