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Ross: When high school yearbooks attack the internet

Sep 26, 2018, 9:20 AM | Updated: 9:21 am

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Brett Kavanaugh (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The Kavanaugh rumble has now moved to a new phase.

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Instead of an FBI investigation, the internet is now trying to decode the high school yearbook entries of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey.

Blasey’s yearbook profile simply quotes the lyrics to “Your Song” by Elton John, and except for a reference to damaging her parents garage while learning to drive, that’s all there is.

Meanwhile, Kavanaugh, in his yearbook profile, refers to himself as “treasurer of the Keg City Club,” whose motto was apparently “100 kegs or bust.” He was also the biggest contributor to the “Beach Week Ralph Club.”

This confirms his admission he “wasn’t perfect,” but it falls far short of proving sexual assault.

It does prove something else though. It is clear proof of an underappreciated Law of Physics which states that if a story is big enough, the internet, like a giant electromagnet, will draw into itself even the stuff you wrote before there was an internet.

I just want to warn those of you age 50 and above who are thinking to yourself “thank goodness there was no internet when I was a teenager” that your stupidest teenage comments are very likely lurking online somewhere, just waiting for you or someone you know to be appointed to something.

Get a lawyer now.

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