Assuming you don’t mean MLB, it’s already happening. I know at least one Palauan guy who went to college on a baseball scholarship. 

This is an interesting take that I wish I’d had the opportunity to read before I moved to Palau.

When you’re used to everybody expecting you to excel it’s bad, and if you’re used to a very personal level of involvement with the teachers you’re trying to impress it’s way worse. That was one of the hardest things about transitioning to college for me.

Cosigned. I have been guilty of this and am trying to stop. When my coworker explains things to me like I’m a small child, it’s not because I’m a woman, it’s because he’s an asshole.

I’ve been living and working in a small, remote community for about a year now, and I’m about to leave, so I’ve been getting nostalgic about all sorts of things, but I never thought I’d get nostalgic about how relatively safe I feel. I know my bartenders by name. They know my drink. I know the bouncers at the one…

My favorite part of this is the somewhat minor point that when your young, it’s hard to grasp the history of politics and how we got where we are now. The time we come of age really does make us who we are, politically. I have never felt so old as I did reading that New Yorker piece about activists at Oberlin. I’m not…

Came here to say exactly this. A judge addresses you by your surname or counselor, never your first name. In my state, only “a child of tender years” may be addressed by his or her first name. Even if that isn’t the rule in Nevada, it’s gratingly disrespectful, and while the handcuffing is over the top absurd, the…

I am fully on board with this. I work in a business casual office, though we really get to make our own decisions about what we think is appropriate (I’ve heard some discussion about my skirt length, but the men in question are scummy and if it wasn’t my skirt it would be something else). However, when I had a major…

India.Arie played her in an episode of American Dreams, I’m pretty sure.

I was going to jump down here immediately after the first paragraph, to explain how super delegates work, because they are not “unelected randos”. Fortunately, it became clear that the author did know how super delegates work, and was merely composing a catchy, if factually incorrect, opening paragraph. I understand…

When I was thirteen, my dad put me in golf lessons. He was concerned that, as a woman, I would be left out of things like business negotiations if I couldn’t socialize with clients on the course. My grandfather gave him a lot of shit, but I stood his ground and I learned to play. Golf was/is definitely a tool used to…

Not quite the same, but where I work, ten years ago a married elected official was caught sleeping with a staffer. He lost his leadership position but won re-election, and has continued to win re-election. He got divorced, married the staffer, and they have subsequently had children together, which I’m sure had…

For the life of me, I do not understand telling your friends “you must purchase this dress so you can wear it at my party.” If you want people to wear something specific, I think you should buy it yourself and have THAT be the gift. Otherwise, saying “please wear something this length in this color, but pick out…

Honestly, I think having female recruiters available is a fantastic idea. When I was applying for JAG, I felt way better because my liaison officer (the Lt. escorting me around the base, making sure I made my interviews on time) was a woman. I could ask her things like “have you experienced any unwelcome attention?…

I had that happen a couple of years ago. My flight had been diverted to San Antonio because of tornadoes, and by the time we made it back to Dallas there were a number of people whose connections had become very tight (myself included). The flight attendant got on the PA and asked that everybody be patient just a…

Biopics about POCs are probably (hopefully?) fertile ground - Ali would be one.

Also, if you don’t have a separate bank account from your partner, and your partner is super paranoid about fraud, you’ll never be able to surprise them with a birthday or holiday gift again.

I also take strange joy in looking at my bank balance. Last year, I was working one minimum wage job and another slightly above minimum wage job, about 50 hours a week, and unable to make rent in a crazy expensive city. I finally got a job using my degree, moved halfway around the world for it, and now live in a place…

You never know when you might have to jam.

There is so much nonsense in my current job! I’m working overseas, and some of it might be cultural: the male officials I work for (I’m an attorney for a Pacific Island government) do the standard comments on my appearance, invite me to go places (like, overnight trips to outlying islands, and don’t invite my male…