This easy hot take us embarrassing...do some research. Bluegrass, country, western, and modern folk are all largely based on European folk music traditions. Even the murder ballad largely associated with the blues has it’s roots in a UK folk tradition. Were all these forms of music eventually influenced by African…

Umm, excuse me:

This man will not shut up or dribble.

I hope you understand that bluegrass was an irish/scottish/english tradition that settlers embellished upon. of course later it was influenced by african american music (like literally every genera) but to say it wouldnt exist without that influence is hyperbolic and untrue.

Everything about this shot is perfect. Chip Somodevilla deserves a fucking Pulitzer for this: photographic timing, capturing the pocket square in the background, everything. I love this so much.

My wife just got told that everybody in her company either has to take a certain percentage of a pay cut this year, or take a week unpaid off. I asked her if the CEO was taking a pay cut. First she treated my question as asinine, and then said she’d have to check, but there wasn’t anything in the message he’d sent…

Lets not all pretend like Serena is an angel. I have grown up watching tennis and witnessed her progression from a promising young teen to what she is now. While i agree she should be touted as one of the greats, definitely the best woman ever, she has had her fair share of “questionable” moments. Lets not forget…

“This is far different from PEDs and to try to even plant them in the same galaxy is Mt. Everest size-reach”

Just because you’re sharing funny stories of shit that happened at work does not make you an asshole, it also doesn’t mean he broke any rules of his job. Particularly when you’re working on specialized positions. This is why we have a list of “weird stuff people put up their butts and wound up in the ER for” every…

People bullshit about funny shit that happens at work.

There hasn’t been a bear post for months. I don’t think Ley loves us any more.

Wade can back her up on one point: having active shooters definitely helps defeat Grizzlies.

#notallbears

Smart of Wade to choose to come in the afternoon, while the kids got nothing of value from DeVos’s a.m. way.

Let’s not be too quick to judge Ms. DeVos. Maybe her plan was to meet with three people, then each of those people would meet with three more people, and so on and so on.

Hey, we should consider everyone’s feelings here.

I’m sure she felt it was quite a degrading experience to actually have to step foot in a public school.

If I was your orthodontist and you came to me with such a case (and that won’t happen seeing I’m nowhere near the healthcare business) I’d laugh right in front of you when you told me you snapped your retainer drooling at a guy. Heck, I’d even consider repairing the retainer for free if it’s not ridiculously costly…

If you think your orthodontist, or any other Dr. you go to isn’t laughing about their patients privately then you are severely deluded.

If he didn’t personally identify her and just described her “condition,” he didn’t violate HIPAA. If she hadn’t tweeted “Hey, that’s me!” no one would have known it was her.

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