Ginny, Would You Lose My Number

Apparently last week Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Ginny called Anita Hill and asked her to apologize, out of the blue, as "an olive branch".  Anita Hill apparently decided where that olive branch needs to be stuck.

Anita Hill, whose accusations of sexual harassment almost derailed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' high court nomination, has no plans to apologize for the charges she made nearly two decades ago.

The response from Hill, now a law professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, comes after a message left for her over the weekend by Thomas' wife, Virginia, who requested an apology.

Really? After what, 19 years you're doing this, out of the blue? And you're doing it at her work?  That's awesome.

"I certainly thought the call was inappropriate," Hill said in a statement to CNN issued by Brandeis. "I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony."

In a statement to CNN, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas said: "I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago. That offer still stands, I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended."

According to a source at Brandeis who spoke on condition of not being identified, the message left over the weekend said:

"Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology some time and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day."

Umm...what I want to know is why everyone's taking Ginny Thomas at her word that she called Anita Hill out of the blue as an olive branch and not that this is the Washington equivalent of Lindsey Lohan drunk dialing Paris Hilton to tell her she slept with her boyfriend.   Granted, I guess there's some sort of style guideline against the papers using "Absolutely Fabulous" as a reference to what happened, but c'mon...this sounds like a classic case of drunk dialing to me.

There's definitely something going on here.