My takeaway is don't let republicans get comfortable.
I ultimately relied on Wikipedia’s list of federal political scandals in the U.S., but limited it to only the executive branch scandals that actually resulted in a criminal indictment. I also decided to only go back as far as Richard Nixon, whose participation in Watergate ultimately resulted in him being the only sitting president to ever resign. This lets many other scandal-ridden administrations off the hook—notably that of Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome scandal, and of Ulysses S. Grant and the Whiskey Ring and Black Friday scandals—but so be it.
The chart only includes people who served in the administration, and excludes others (like members of Congress and private individuals) who may have also been swept up and indicted for the same scandal. The “Convictions” list includes both those who went to trial and were found guilty as well as those who plea bargained and pleaded guilty. The “Prison Sentences” should be considered a minimum figure, as Wikipedia's list wasn’t always clear on penalties and I wasn’t able to look all of the unclear ones up.
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When I worked in hospitality, I would get those men all the time. Some days it was all I could do to not say, "if you want me to smile, then go away and make me smile."
you know the boyfriend's going to have to document the entire apartment, now, right?
If you’re the kind of person who spends the first ten minutes of the Lyft ride to the airport worrying that you accidentally left the oven on—even if you didn’t even use the oven that day—you can quell your anxious brain with a quick smartphone precaution.
Wouldn't this be grounds for suing the school, at least for those student who went there expecting an education?
A GOP bill would block faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison from teaching OB-GYN residents how to perform abortions. Because a foolproof way of improving women’s healthcare is to make doctors worse at their jobs.
“The Tower is all that stands between light and darkness. For thousands of generations the gunslingers were knights. Sworn to protect it. Now I’m the only one left.”
There’s something really terrifying about the concept of being pursued by something that can only walk slowly after. Just slooowly following. You can chill for a while if you get far enough away but it’s still coming.
That’s called “persistence hunting” and it’s how humans hunted all sorts of megafauna to extinction, as well as what let our species become so disperse and so numerous. Our existence is a horror story told from the monster’s perspective.
I think some adults need to realize that teens don’t dislike adults because teens are rebellious and punk, a lot of kids and teens dislike adults because every interaction they’ve had with them is dismissing and condescending
I’m not even a teenager anymore and I still feel like this.
This comic is from the colossally not-safe-for-work comic Oglaf. This is one of their very occasional PG-rated entries – be forewarned, virtually everything else there is outright pornography.
them: hey so what gender are you me: oh actually i… i lost my gender in a terrible accident. its very hard for me to talk abt
them: hey so what gender are you me: ok so you know that feeling where u arent sure whether or not you’ve left the stove on? them: ….yeah? me: its that
them: what’s ur gender me: oh i have this condition where im allergic to the sugar found in gender, its called genderose-intolerance