Lost his mother before he was old enough to build actual lasting memories of her. Grew up the black sheep son of a prominent man.

He does not seem to be a great person, but there are definitely better hands to be dealt for a guy who otherwise grew up with extraordinary privilege. 

Hunter Biden has some serious issues (I’m guessing living in Beau’s shadow didn’t help) but I don’t think he’s ever been responsible for running a sham charity that literally donated nothing to anyone but the Trumps. I wouldn’t want to spend time with either of them, but it takes a special kind of skeezy to make…

Also COTA is less than 20 miles from downtown so almost all the meetups and event happen downtown. 

It wasn’t crowd sizes that got it cancelled. It was the amount of international travelers SXSW brings in that got them canceled, especially since a good number of them would be coming from countries with a high amount of confirmed cases.

That’s true for many software jobs. My wife is a program manager and basically works from home most days. The issue is that her coders also work from home, and their home is India. It’s always a double-edged sword. The flexibility to work from home is great, but that means there will be more competition for that job.…

COTA was actually annexed by the City of Austin shortly after it opened, so there’s no doubt that City of Austin’s rules would come into play there: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2012/11/09/austin-annexes-circuit-of-the-americas.html

Because older generations are refusing to deal with the legacy costs of their actions. This is a gun to the head of the younger generation and they are sick of it.

“no one older than one year out of high school”

I had to do this at my private evangelical-Christian school. A lot of us had to have our dresses altered with fabric inserts to cover up cleavage or low backs. And we couldn’t submit photos, we had to bring our dresses to school, try them on in the women’s bathroom, then the principal or the highest-ranking woman…

What an incredibly invasive and creepy thing to ask. Also creepy-the principal claims there were “parents who are proud of the school for taking a stand to ensure prom is an encouraging, wholesome event.” aka parents who were totally fine with their girls being treated like objects that needed monitoring. 

I noticed that too! Jezebel definitely seemed very pro Bernie and The Root really took the time to absorb her plans and shared the benefits with readers.

In Navy boot camp, everyone spends a week or so working in the base mess hall cooking food for all the other recruits. When Seaman Recruit Ghost had to take his turn, he was assigned to the mess hall bakery. This bakery was run by this tall, rangy guy who had been in the Navy for 16 years, yet was only a third-class…

So if you don’t know anything about a candidate, you just pick them on what your prefered race and gender are. Sounds completely reasonable.

But isn’t that the issue we are dealing with now? People blindly voting for who isn’t “horrible” rather than a person who may be best qualified?

*shakes fist*

i dunno, The Root did more to explain the benefits of a Warren presidency than Jezebel ever did. 

Jezebel/Splinter’s wholesale post-hoc embrace of Warren now that she’s out of the race/Bernie’s way is very Jezebel/Splinter.

Welcome to the Root. Sometimes its Nation Of Islam, sometimes it’s hotep, and other times it’s black Jezebel. But for the most part i love this site

I want to make a point but before I do two caveats:

I believe him....