I can't articulate what it feels like, being a woman living in this binary reality: The one where sexual assault is a serious, soul-sucking crime -- and the one where hey, it's no big deal! Sometimes, I just can't find the words. Fortunately, Stephen Colbert is there to do the heavy lifting. Even if Kavanaugh is guilty, it probably won’t be enough to keep him from getting a lifetime appointment on the country’s highest court, he said last night. He played a clip of probably-senile Chuck Grassley* mumbling, “I’d hate to have someone ask me what I did 35 years ago." “Yeah, who knows what kind of youthful hijinks Grassley was up to when he was a 49-year-old senator?” Colbert snarked. Then he played a clip of equally probably-senile Orrin Hatch*, who said Dr.