Thanks for this. I’m a console gamer and a Mac user, but I’ve been considering buying an inexpensive gaming laptop PC to play Civ6 and other strategy games. (My MacBook Pro runs Civ5 fine, but the fan noise is outrageous!) I’m completely at a loss as to how much to spend on a machine that has the power to run…

Thanks for this. I’m a console gamer and a Mac user, but I’ve been considering buying an inexpensive gaming laptop…

T****’s handshakes are all clench-and-pull. His elbow is always tucked in tight to his body. That’s some bullshit insecure masculinity/business power move to literally knock people off balance.

Cannot WAIT for him to refer to a Black foreign head of state as an African American.

No. According to what staffers and ex-staffers have written, phone calls get tallied by topic & what position the caller has. They don’t give a hoot what phrasing you use. That’s why it’s not good to stack a bunch of different issues into one call— it makes it difficult for the staffer to tally “topic x: for/against”.…

Back before the election the political podcasts would wonder out loud, “If Trump wins, what professional would be willing to work for him?” To which professionals then working in DC would reply, “We’ll continue to do our jobs, but if we’re asked to do something illegal/immoral/damaging to the USA, we’ll resign in…

Same.

Buy yourself a $100 gift card to Sephora, then just walk in and put yourself in a salesperson’s hands. It’s fun when you let go and let someone else help you— like being strapped in on a roller coaster. I’m a lady but makeup illiterate and in my 40s so when I bought concealer for the first time I was terrified. The…

I think the edition of Aschenputtel she’s reading above is available from Project Gutenberg here: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/-6248/16

To be fair (and after all, we MUST be fucking fair) Morgan Lewis is a giant-ass global law firm and it would be weird if they didn’t have an office in Russia. But this is a delicious tidbit.

Sheri Dillon’s ( https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/sdillon ) law firm:

When I was 12 I went to see Return Of The Jedi in the theater with my best friend and his mom. Driving us home my friend’s mom pointed out that when Luke (spoiler alert) killed the Rancor in Jabba’s gladiator pit and made Malakili the Rancor Keeper cry, HE WAS JUST AS EVIL AS DARTH VADER.

I weirdly keep being surprised that it’s just now winter. I keep thinking the spring buds should be starting to bloom. I think the whole mess of 2016 and the election in particular make me feel like the entire holiday season fell off a cliff.

I saw a pair of women walking arm-in-arm in Paris years ago, before this panic over headscarves and burqas began. The neighborhood we were in is densely populated with ethnic Chinese and Muslim Parisians. The women were clearly very close, and from their comfort walking together, I assumed they were related. One was…

(I posted this Saturday on another The Slot  post:)

No, the white part is critical. People whose grandparents were saved from poverty by the New Deal, whose parents adored JFK and LBJ, are convinced that the social programs of the 40's-60's are A) immoral and B) a personal burden to themselves, when made available to non-white others.

Something to do:

Your voice is absolutely the one your rep needs to hear. My rep is a bicycle-riding, bowtie wearing sweetheart who advocates the end of marijuana prohibition. All I can do is call and say “atta boy!” (which I have done since he publicly denounced Steve Bannon as a white supremacist) You actually have the potential…

I think part of that is down to the failure to convict on the conspiracy charge. But supposedly conspiracy is super-easy to convict, and that got screwed up, so maybe the weapons charge would have failed regardless.

To all the people asking what the fuck (believe me, we in Portland are saying the same) Oregon Public Radio has an excellent podcast series called This Land Is Our Land that covers the trial and summarizes the issues around the standoff. From what I can tell, the Feds bungled this thing badly. Wrong charges,…

A) Donald Trump has shown that he believes people who talk “funny” are mentally deficient (see: his mocking of deaf actress Marlee Matlin.)