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In an age where old men have been photographed sitting shirtless on passenger planes, while others stick their bare feet next to the heads of the people in front of them, naturally the world got incensed last week when United Airlines stopped two girls from boarding because they were wearing leggings. Those are too formal for this flight, honey.
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Actually, United stopped the girls because they were flying with buddy passes, meaning the tickets were gifted by an airline employee. Those tickets come with a dress code, because the passenger is assumed to be representing the airline. Now, if we could just get buddy passes for everyone on my next flight.
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Meanwhile, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams probably gladly would have worn leggings to be excused from public hearings over proposed new homeless shelter sites.
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Last fall, Donald Trump made the case that he could govern much more efficiently than Hillary Clinton. Now he has proven it by failing miserably at health care reform much faster than Hillary did back in the '90s.
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Republicans failed to pass a replacement for Obamacare, which was surprising considering the exhaustive two weeks they spent writing it.
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The Republican party's right-wing defeated the health care bill, saying it wasn't crafted very carefully. I guess that now makes it the party's new center-wing.
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Meanwhile, President Trump wants Republicans to move on to something a little easier — rewriting the entire tax code. I'm thinking maybe three weeks, max.
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Congress has voted to allow Internet providers to sell our browser histories without permission. As a group that often finds itself in scandals because of questionable private behavior, I don't think members of Congress thought this one through.
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C'mon, though! We all know our phones are spying on us, the government listens to all our calls and even that sweet-looking email from grandma might be loaded with a data-swiping virus. Who cares if we start seeing more ads for the last thing we happened to Google? Oh, and how do you password protect a computer from your spouse?
In an age where old men have been photographed sitting shirtless on passenger planes, while others stick their bare feet next to the heads of the people in front of them, naturally the world got incensed last week when United Airlines stopped two girls from boarding because they were wearing leggings. Those are too formal for this flight, honey.
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Actually, United stopped the girls because they were flying with buddy passes, meaning the tickets were gifted by an airline employee. Those tickets come with a dress code, because the passenger is assumed to be representing the airline. Now, if we could just get buddy passes for everyone on my next flight.
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Meanwhile, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams probably gladly would have worn leggings to be excused from public hearings over proposed new homeless shelter sites.
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Last fall, Donald Trump made the case that he could govern much more efficiently than Hillary Clinton. Now he has proven it by failing miserably at health care reform much faster than Hillary did back in the '90s.
---
Republicans failed to pass a replacement for Obamacare, which was surprising considering the exhaustive two weeks they spent writing it.
---
The Republican party's right-wing defeated the health care bill, saying it wasn't crafted very carefully. I guess that now makes it the party's new center-wing.
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Meanwhile, President Trump wants Republicans to move on to something a little easier — rewriting the entire tax code. I'm thinking maybe three weeks, max.
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Congress has voted to allow Internet providers to sell our browser histories without permission. As a group that often finds itself in scandals because of questionable private behavior, I don't think members of Congress thought this one through.
---
C'mon, though! We all know our phones are spying on us, the government listens to all our calls and even that sweet-looking email from grandma might be loaded with a data-swiping virus. Who cares if we start seeing more ads for the last thing we happened to Google? Oh, and how do you password protect a computer from your spouse?
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