Only a son or daughter of Greenwich (or the like) would think this needs explaining.

But it’s still a job. A place where you go that you have tasks that help other things to happen. If you’re being assigned tasks and a schedule you should be paid for it. 

A job is a job is a job. If you’re devoting your life to it you shouldn’t be having to rely on your parents for income no matter what the other benefits of the job are. It’s also very important to our democracy that these stepping stone positions be an option for regular ass people not just the children of the rich.

and almost as if on cue, AOC is tweeting about it:

Yeah this is actually just and ingenious way to gift rich people political careers while creating plausible deniability that you just want rich people to have political offices. “They put in the work, they toiled away, unpaid intern!”

The kind of people that have “full time availability” for a unpaid internship should be kept as FAR AWAY from government as possible, aka; every single little twerp in that lede image.

I grew up in Greenwich Connecticut, home of well connected elite millionaire and their kids, and it was standard practice for parents to use their connections to get each-other’s kids high profile internships on Wall Street and Washington, and they would happily take them and not get paid, because they could afford to…

Such a tired argument when the likes of Alabama are stuffing the schedule with The Citadel. Force top 5 teams to play UCF then.

Hey, we’re coming up on my favorite tradition: Notre Dame getting clobbered by some Southern school in a bowl after playing a season full of cupcakes.

No, this isn’t analogous to that at all. Denying UCF a playoff spot is more analogous to saying that the Al Central is down this year, so no matter who wins it, they don’t get to be in the playoffs because their schedule is too weak. UCF is a Division 1 program. It’s bullshit that they’re considered part of that…

We got out of the BCS because we didn’t want to be dictated by numbers and go with rational thoughts of what would be the best teams to compete...amongst the Power 5 Cartel.

I had offered a special handshake, one I learned from a Native elder on reservation land at the edge of the Grand Canyon. You extend your thumb forward during the handshake to feel the other person’s vital spirit energy — the pulse.

I read this yesterday. I was struck by two things. The first is that he’s very, very smart and is trying very hard to explain, reasonably and clearly, why he isn’t a creep. While being super fucking creepy the whole way down. “Oh I was just a creeper level 4, not a creeper level 1!”

So to be clear, you were the villain in an 80's teen movie.

What’s sad is a large portion of the population can’t afford to eat anything better.

That quote is positively dripping with white privilege.

Saddest? Funny you look at it that way, because in my (admitted limited) experience, I’ve had countless delicious sandwiches made with top-shelf ingredients, usually by people working for wages in delis and restaurants, and that’s nice and all. But whenever somebody has made me a sandwich using the cheapest available…

But we are no longer in a Depression. We have many more lunch options that can be prepared in three minutes or less: Tacos! Hummus! Poke bowls!

Where the fuck are you from that only has Subway and Oscar Mayer packs and doesn’t have grocery stores with delis?  This article is trash.

you think smear sounds better? that sounds like poo left on your ass after a particularly messy wipe. Shmear sounds like something delicious spread on a bagel.