I don’t understand why electability is a thing. We have primaries. The person with the most votes, wins. Any candidate with enough appeal to win earnest votes for them probably has a good shot at winning the general.

A lot of these personality-driven critiques seem like butthurt his poll numbers have risen at the expense of other people’s first-choice candidates.

Political convictions and policy direction is important, but I’m not sold policy details are important. In the end, I want a candidate that can work with the Congress they are dealt to create detailed policy that moves us in a particular direction (e.g. expanded access to affordable healthcare, education), rather than…

To be fair in that piece, Buttigieg is fairly clear where he stands: no voting in prison (violent or otherwise), but felons have their voting rights restored on release (violent or otherwise). People can have pragmatic and moral disagreements with that stance, but it’s fairly straight-forward, substantive position.

Hot take: Snarking about irrelevant personality quarks is as much of a sideshow as fawning over them. In the end, it’s all about the entertainment of irrelevant things.

The point is snarking about irrelevant things is as lame fawning over irrelevant things. I’d argue it’s even worse because it’s trying to be self-aware and then falls into the same trap. This piece complains about his policies and policy detail, but it doesn’t actually go into any detail about those complaints.

Nailed it. Unfortunately the exponential increasing wait time between books and actuarial tables on older men give us little reason to think the source material will ever be finished.

Sperm banks rarely have donors under 6", and if they do it’s mostly because they come from a shorter-on-average ethnic background (e.g. Korean, Jewish) that is in demand. My wife is 5'2" and didn’t want a big baby (not sure if their is a correlation), so we had to exclude most of the catalog. I had to do a hard sell…

“I don’t think the intent was ever to get his kid into the college.”

Muddy what waters? Crimes were committed and are being prosecuted. Is my internet comment going lighten their sentence? Are people on Jezebel unable to parse the nuance in your opinion?

It’s not watering down. They broke the law for bribing people to abuse their positions of power. That’s illegal in this context and so many others.

There may be all kinds of terrific reasons to do it, but it doesn’t erase the fact their offspring get an edge in admissions because of the donations, and therefore, are not getting in on merit alone. (By the way, Harvard’s endowment is so big at this point, they don’t need actually need to charge tuition to anyone).

Actually, he had a lot to say about the second child on the record as he considered it. He definitely knew about the first, possibly when it was happening but was not directly in communication. The fact he entertained the second shows he didn’t regret cheating to the point he’d never consider it again. He was morally…

There is an intersection between donors and legacy, for sure. But high-priced donor kids have a better chance of getting in, legacy or not. Les Wexner went to Ohio State, but has given tens of millions to Harvard over the years. Any guesses on where ALL FOUR kids went to school?

To be fair, the bribery of donor-class students is well-known. You donate the right amount of money, your kid has a better chance at taking a spot from a higher performing applicant of lessor means. This corruption scandal should be criminally penalized, but it is not like the application process was 100% based on…

It’s not fair, which is why there is a criminal case.

The damages are part of the problem with over-valuing “elite schools”. Her son is going to UC Davis. Is that really worth a half-trillion less than the other schools. For most fields, kids that go to a good public university do just as well as their elite school peers. Maybe we shouldn’t overvalue the name brands of…

This the the Stanford lawsuit just makes me think...when will all this entitlement end?

DE SR FTW.

I think it has a variety of advantages, some that matter more than others. 1. On the desktop, it’s much faster to use the hardware key than using a standard authenticator w/ code. 2. They are cheaper than your phone. You can have more than one of them on an account. They don’t need to be charged. All advantages for…