This sort of thing is what happens when companies get bigger and richer than governments. We’re going to see a lot more of this going forward, and it’s going to be bigger than municipal governments. Extorting cities? Wait until somebody like Google decides to quit this relatively circumspect lobbying crap and really…

10/10 cringe-worthy dialogue and bro-tacular protagonist. Hoping that’s just the trailer...

When I was a kid my bitchy older step-sister got stuck upside down on a roller coaster for half an hour while I watched from below, drinking a slushie. Best day ever.

We went to over a dozen places in Tokyo in 2016 looking for Yamazaki 12 for a birthday present for my husband’s father, including the distillery itself. Absolutely none to be had. We found a bottle when we came home, at our local liquor store. (They no longer have any.)

My husband kind of did too- he left solo practice for a job with the state, which is a minor miracle. Loan forgiveness! Without the crushing tax bill at the end! Downside... absolutely no career advancement for a full decade. Or really any raises or bonuses or anything like that. Old attorneys were basically eating…

Upper Midwest attorney married to another attorney, and same. We’re both in your third category and it sucks. I’m almost five years into my “career,” doing legal work but not with a job title with “attorney” in it, driving 45 minutes on the freeway each way, and earning, adjusted for inflation, basically my starting…

Oh, god. That book took me three tries to get through, and when I got to the end at long last I heaved it across the room.

You are the worst human on this thread. Take your star.

Wow. I’m completely sure that whatever term he used has been used in an actual article on Jezebel at one point or another, because CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING.

This is the smartest move they could be making right now, and it’s the right move if they actually want durable, stable protection for DACA recipients through legislation rather than risky presidential fiat. The courts have slowed Trump’s roll enough that everything is going to stay gummed up through the November…

“I don’t recall” is particularly worrisome. Like, how often are you doing this that you don’t remember this specific incident? I mean, I assume they’re lying, but still.

I’m yet to have it happen, but then again, I’ve never worked for a firm since law school. I went corporate(ish). And my current boss is a woman, so I’m relatively safe.

You know, before #MeToo, I thought whipping one’s dick out in front of women absent a specific request to do so was something only creeps in trench coats did in public parks and on the subway. I thought it was, you know, somewhat rare. Now I find out, to my amazement, that it seems there isn’t a single profession…

The Midwest. If you can do extreme, unreasonable, snot-freezing cold, the Twin Cities are a nice place to live. Lots of good restaurants, many jobs, cool arts scene. Cost of living will seem quite reasonable to someone from LA. It kind of depends how much slowdown you’re looking for, really. Madison, WI is also nice…

I vaguely remember being forced to read it at some point in grade school. I cannot keep it separate in my head from The Dark Is Rising, which we also read, although they had us do that stupid thing where you break the kids up into groups, each group reads a randomly assigned chapter, and then each group reports on…

My brother-in-law named his kid Ender and defiantly told us at the time that no one would think of “Ender’s Game” when they heard it.

Unsolicited advice: If you’re like me and have a metric ton of costume jewelry, you can also use a cork bulletin board to organize. I took a piece of white muslin fabric, cut it to size, folded all four edges under, and used cute push pins (there are many varieties out there) to pin it to the bulletin board, creating…

Kim wants quick cash/free food/free whatever. Same shit, different day. We’ve been around this block three or four times in the last two decades. They’ll start up their program again as soon as the payouts arrive, same as always.

Dance is known in our household as A Tome of Boats and Marching.

Hey, I remember when he said that!