I'm guessing this is an outgrowth of their collective obsession with aesthetics — leadership is what one is seen doing. Nothing happens behind the curtain, so doing actual admin work in, say, an office is unthinkable. Your job as a cabinet member is to be on camera doing a leadership.
The part where she says she was proud of herself because she left the airport and prayed with her cab driver and hotel clerk really drives home how awful she is. These are customer service workers who don't have the power to tell you no. They have to deal with her entitled bullshit.
The details in this story really double down on how awful she is. She brags about how, immediately after leaving the airport, she prayed with her taxi driver and the hotel clerk — people in customer service positions who aren't allowed to tell her to fuck off.
Yes. I own several pairs of shorts and I wash them regularly because putting on the same pair twice gives me the ick, even if I wasn't especially sweating them out the last time. Would you wear your gym clothes several times between washes?
I would at least feel a little better about our impending, foreseeable, and incredibly stupid destruction if there were a great many other societies also destroyed by it.
It seems like a pretty cut-and-dry violation of California's consent statute, but prosecuting it seems extremely against the public interest. Prosecutors really should have just refused to swing at this one.
I am among those who contend that even Frank Drake never really meant that question to be taken all that seriously, but it is useful as a way to provoke discussion.
Everything I have ever studied about microbes and self-replicating molecules leads me to believe that the universe must be absolutely teeming with life, it's just not the kind that flies across the universe to stick things in yokels' butts.
