A VHQ scan of Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington at the Marc Jacobs show, New York, Fall 1988

Cindy was 22, and the picture could easily be mistaken for one of her daughter (Kaia Gerber), except that the daughter does not have the famous birthmark and the mother has not seen Pete Davidson’s dick. (Well, as far as we know. I guess she may have, since Davidson’s penis is now America’s #1 tourist attraction. The lines to view it now exceed those at Disney World, Lenin’s tomb, or the DMV. To keep traffic orderly and avoid congestion, Davidson has installed a turnstile on his zipper.)

“The Founders had a broader conception of bribery than what’s in the (modern) criminal code. Their understanding was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholder’s abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest.”

He was so obviously guilty that I’m surprised the jury even had to deliberate. Hell, why did they even need a trial. The prosecution was accusing Roger Stone of lying. That would be a tough case to lose. It would be like failing to prove that a fish can swim. It would be much more difficult to find an instance where Stone told the truth about something.

His legal team’s last, best hope was an argument that Stone couldn’t have lied under oath because lying requires an intent to deceive and Stone is too stupid to know the difference between truth and falsehood. “There was no corrupt intent in what Mr. Stone said. These people were playing Mr. Stone. Mr. Stone took the bait.”

Since Stone seems to have the intelligence of a cherrystone clam, that argument has some superficial appeal, but even that was obviously refuted by direct evidence. Stone did know he had lied under oath, but didn’t care. There was even an e-mail exchange in which an associate pointed out his lies under oath, to which Stone wrote back: “No one cares.”

Based on the jury’s verdict, I guess he was wrong about that as well.

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