No, but I’m pretty sure they can adopt such a rule going forward.

The problem is that like so many other things we’ve seen since the elevation of the dumpster fire, no one ever put a rule in writing before because they assumed that the majority of people elected to office would, in fact, be rational human beings.

Who needs to come through his yearbooks? We already have pictures of grown-up adult Mitch being handed awards in front of gigantic Confederate flags, and response from Republicans is, “But Hillary! Obama! Something something emails Benghazi uranium child sex rings!”

No. Just, no. I was roughly the same as these guys in the 80s, and no, blackface did NOT “signal something different.” 

Maybe there are some advantages to being the most boring man in the Democratic party.

I’m not familiar enough with Virginia law to be sure entirely sure, but if it’s like most states, the only way Northam would be able to appoint a new LtG is if the position was actually vacant. So if Fairfax were to resign tomorrow (doesn’t seem likely), Northam could name someone to the post. He wouldn’t be able to…

Relative youth? Herring was 19, Northam was 25. That’s maybe, just maybe a pass for Herring, especially in light of his ‘fessing up and actually apologizing (assuming he doesn’t decide to lay down some mad rhymes in his next press conference), but Northam? Any chance he had of surviving this with any sort of career…

C’mon, like maybe Cthulhu is evil enough to take on Roger Goodell?

He said it because it’s sure as hell better to come forward with it now than it is to have someone else pop up next week with the party pictures. Bring it out yourself, and just maybe you can avoid getting thrown under the bus. Otherwise, not so much. 

Except in that major Hollywood release, that protagonist was portrayed as a a dick for posing as a black man (not really blackface - no one is expected to think that someone in black face is actually black) to get a scholarship. The movie is also shows the fun that the protagonist has as he finds out that yes,…

The dude was gonna moonwalk his way through the press conference. I’m gonna go with “hasn’t learned a damn thing.”

At least Herring had the good sense to say, “Um, hey, guys, I did this really really stupid thing when I was younger and I’m really sorry I did it and for the love of god please don’t hate me forever and ever because I will for reals hate myself for it the rest of my life.” And to say it before whatever random…

It gives me a sad every day to see the troll brigade running merrily through the comments while I have apparently been eternally relegated to the grays. 

That, or she promised to pinch his knee when Mother isn’t looking, just to see if she could get him to run from the room. 

Exactly. They were flatly laughing at him because it didn’t seem to cross his mind that their elections were a plain rebuke to him and his policies. 

Once upon a time. For a depressingly large number of people, paid time off has disappeared entirely. 

But PTO also greatly reduces healthy people calling out at the last minute so that they can use sick time instead of having to use vacation time if they actually put in their request ahead of time. That’s something actually confirmed by multiple studies, not just that I noticed how much healthier some of my co-workers…

As far as I know, tax-wise it would be treated no differently than any other income. 

No, it’s really not better.

Except yeah, she DID intentionally lie about it. From what she had said before this all blew up in her face, this was the dreaded ‘family lore’ that didn’t even really pinpoint who in the family was the Native American ancestor. And based on that, she’s writing “American Indian” on forms for race? That’s a pretty…