Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:From the clips I've seen and my experience with alcoholics, I'm going to posit that Kavanaugh is most likely a full-blown alcoholic who went from binge drinking and blackouts in his teens and twenties to steady, daily (probably all day some days) consumption to keep his addicted, altered biochemistry in check. I'm only guessing.
But first it would explain some physical things--his puffiness, extremely broken facial capilaries, and brown teeth. For moneyed folk who have the means for elective procedures, brown teeth are usually an indicator of something internal manifesting outward that can't be repaired through cosmetic dentistry, like long-term liver or kidney disease.
Second and most importantly, his behavior. He acts and over-emotes *exactly* the way an addict acts and emotes when they are forced into a situation where they *have* to be sober. Worse, he's forced into that situation because of a questioning of his prior behavior while intoxicated. Shouty, ultra-defensive, deflective, trying to seem "regular" angry except that internal gauge is broken so unable to recognize that he's coming off as rage angry, etc.
He also seems like someone who's yet to admit a problem or, worse, think he has one--so his rage never ends at having to be sober while presenting in a high pressure public forum. I bet he used to down lots of hard liquor, but switched to beer because you "can't be an alcoholic with just beer." Hence all the beer talk.
I'm an dentist, and no, I believe you just made that up. I have never learned that, either in school or in numerous CE classes, nor seen it in any of the dental literature.