I believe it was Prince Andrew, not Charles

I know what it's like when somebody calls off, so I try not to subject my coworkers to that. For me, it's not about the company, but about the other staff members who will have to pick up my slack.

You write allegedly to protect yourself from libel. Unless a person has been legally said to have done something, you can't say they categorically have without being susceptible to libel.

Honestly, most along the border don't want a wall. I tried to post the URLs for three news articles from three Texas-based sources about it, but I can't for some reason. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Texas Tribune, and the Texas Observer all have pieces about it.

Exactly. If this is something they normally do and refused to do it because of the customers gender identification then that would be an issue. They didn't do it because of safety issues, then that's not a problem at all.

Yeah, the organizers clean up after the race.

No they can't because that's an essentially stupid take that unklethan is using just to cause a reaction.

Michel Foucault boils down the history of the penal system in the book "Discipline and Punish." In it, he shows that that prisons have had two essential functions: one, to show the criminal that what they did was an egregious breach of societies rules and regulations; and two, to experiment new ways to punish the population as a whole. The penal system shows the states power and its ability to punish the people when and how it sees fit.

Haha, awesome! Yeah, I was living in VT at the time and something like Joe Biden in the state is front page news.