I’m a scientist, and everyone I work with refers to Melania Trump’s visa as a model or rock star visa.

I think the line is if you know your client is planning to lie on the stand, but the lawyer can still argue for reasonable doubt while knowing about the bodies in your basement (or in Gates’s case, the piles of rubles in the closet). This is what I have learned from law and order so take that as you will.

I’m a dog lover and there are plenty of dog lover’s who are inconsiderate and irresponsible pet owners who fail to properly care, feed, and train their dogs. This guy though? He is asking his fiancé to be one of them. Having a pet is a commitment, and part of that commitment is that it is for life. Asking her to get…

Except they often have problems. Domestic water wells need to be tested regularly, particularly in agricultural areas. They are rarely as deep as municipal water wells and are much more vulnerable to surface contamination (esp. in well drained, wet areas). Atrazine, a common broad leaf herbicide, is in plenty of…

The perspective seems off in this picture—Melania looks wide in it as well, and as unflattering as that dress is, I don’t think she would ever be considered a large woman.

Yes. I am forty, and I know too many women for whom this happened, mostly friends from grad school who followed spouses around to low paying academic jobs that were still the primary career. So now they have kids, are still geographically limited in where they can live, and are financially strapped.

I think giving the feed a rest is a good idea. I realized the other day that with the 400 odd people on my social media, if each of them only post about 1 awesome day, I see someone doing something great, new baby, vacation, job, house, whatever, every day, which makes every day of mine seem really monotonous,…

I think baked Alaska would be fun to try. The iceberg wedge salad is funny though—do you think they are on trend circa 2014, or does Trump love this as part of his 1983 fetish?

Taylor, Melania, and I all have deeply set eyes, eye makeup is always a challenge because you can see so little of the brow (and since my eyelids fold over completely, you get shadow or liner on the upper part of the lid if it isn’t completely dry). A heavy black eye is one way of making it possible to see our eyes,…

I”ve thought a lot about this in regards to my own workplace—we are a weird mix between rigid management hierarchy, but with many people at the nominally same level who are, in reality, at vastly different levels of experience and influence. Throw in a job that often requires travel, and a professional culture…

How can you be opposed to the world’s first elite vodka? And it is 6x distilled! Packaged in individual shot glasses!

The real genius of the way we do it is that in any office in the land, all work stops the Tuesday before thanksgiving. From now until Jan 1, we are going full tilt to holiday lunch, after work happy hours, and no one is doing any work.

ps, I realized after I hit post my comment really had very little to do with yours but the time I was done. It started as some thoughts on men not thinking they were doing anything wrong, than morphed into anger at my sexist asshole coworker, who nonetheless manages not to grab the bodies of his female co-workers.

I overheard one of my male colleagues talking about how easy it is to get in trouble, how you have to be so careful for something to be misconstrued. Also how the women in Nigeria (where he used to work) dressed so much more sexy than American women and temptation was everywhere (I’ve never been, but via video…

I like ‘em both, but I agree that Strong is totally underrated. She is a rock solid ensemble member, and I think she performs like Kenan does—consistently funny and elevates the material around her. I think her visibility right now is down because of the general strength of the women. Mackinnon, Jones, and Bryant…

I love that gif. I read the previous comment as a statement of what is wrong with liberal politics—an overemphasis on who should be leading and what are the right or most sophisticated takes on politics. Real leaders grow, they are not appointed and we need all the ones we can get. Chance may be young, but he has…

This would fit with him one year of tax returns available from the mid aughts, I think it reported taxable income in the $125 million ballpark. Which is a crazy amount of money, for sure, but nowhere near what he claims.

This is a weird provision. I don’t understand the implications. One possibility is universities providing students with tax-offset payments, which I have a hard time imagining them doing. Another option is to forgo tuition, it is hard to see how this would work given that many students are on fellowships from…

What lovely news. I remember the joy during Houston pride the week marriage equality was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the United States. It was wonderful, and I imagine it is even better for being passed by referendum.

That I don’t know—when I lived in the area I was doing lake research field work so I was always driving around. You would see both tribal and non-tribal patrols riding around (this was by the Lac du Flambeau band reservation). I have to admit, I was 20 and much more concerned with finding fun places to go skinny…