No one looks at your pedigree or your jail record.
You can decorate your pedigree in many different ways.
I don't know how you word this, but no one ever asked you your pedigree if you came here.
It was the co-moderator Bret Baier who brought up the "e" word, saying, "Governor Bush, it's hard for anyone of your pedigree to avoid being called establishment".
In Midland, Tex., where he grew up, he said in a separate interview, "you were judged apart from your pedigree -- Texas is like that".
Mr. Flom, who died last week at the age of 87, believed fiercely that merit, not your family name or your pedigree, mattered most.
"They are optimized for conveying the importance of your pedigree," Hanlon told me.
There's something else that you need to get hired, something much harder to define, not some hard technical skills or a certificate that confirms your pedigree.
Some jobs may be more traditional than others for people with your pedigree, but that doesn't matter to open-minded contrarians.
But now you can't go anywhere without people knowing your pedigree, where you went to obedience school, and the status of your latest puppy love.
Validating your pedigree.
