Don’t tell anybody this intrigues me.

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-ending-of-this-survival-game-is-the-most-tension-filled-fun-ive-had-in-ages/

#playLater #pcGame

Republicans.

«In the November elections, Republicans gained seats in the House and came one seat shy of gaining a supermajority in that chamber. So Democrats hold enough votes in the House to protect Cooper’s veto. But with the new rules in place, Democrats fear Republicans will call surprise votes to override Cooper if a couple of their members are absent.»

https://www.wral.com/nc-house-republicans-scrap-rule-on-veto-override-votes/20667372/

Hey, David Brooks and Bret Stephens: it was the racism. Not the “post-Reagan decay of the Republican party” or whatever you want to call it. Not Gingrich. Not Fox News. Go back to 1964 and “hunt where the ducks are”.

«[David:] I walked into the polling booth that November genuinely not knowing if I would vote for McCain or Barack Obama. Then an optical illusion flashed across my brain. McCain and Obama’s names appeared to be written on the ballot in 12-point type. But Sarah Palin’s name looked like it was written in red in 24-point type. I don’t think I’ve ever said this publicly before, but I voted for Obama.

Bret: I voted for McCain. If I were basing my presidential votes on the vice-presidential candidate, I’d have thought twice about voting for Biden.»

Seriously, I rest my case (Bret).

«Trump had kept hundreds of classified documents across his office and a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, as well as a separate storage unit in Palm Beach, Florida, compared with 10 classified documents found at the UPenn Biden Center in downtown Washington.»

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/11/trump-biden-classified-documents-serious-mar-a-lago

Also:

«The obstruction applies particularly to Trump because of his repeated refusal to fully surrender classified documents, including when he only partially complied with a grand jury subpoena issued in May demanding any classified materials, that led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last August.

And Trump for months also resisted conducting a search for any classified documents that the justice department suspected were still in his possession even after the FBI seized hundreds of classified materials, only for that second search to turn up at least two more classified documents.

By contrast, the classified documents found last year at the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy in Washington, where he was an honorary professor until 2019, were returned to the National Archives as soon as they were discovered when the office was being closed down.

ibid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/in-defense-of-cabbage.html

WRAL News: Man murdered in Durham was Afghan refugee who risked life to help American troops. https://www.wral.com/man-murdered-in-durham-was-afghan-refugee-who-risked-life-to-help-american-troops/20664228/

«The Finnish chef Kim Mikkola, who worked at Noma for four years, said that fine dining, like diamonds, ballet and other elite pursuits, often has abuse built into it.

“Everything luxetarian is built on somebody’s back; somebody has to pay,” he said.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/noma-closing-rene-redzepi.html

«…a spreading plague of far-right disrupters in Western democracies, as hard-liners radicalized by incendiary political rhetoric refuse to accept election losses, cling to unfounded claims of fraud and undermine the rule of law.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/08/bolsonaro-invade-congress-lula/

In the course of my semi-random web surfing….

https://medium.com/climate-conscious/boxed-water-isnt-better-b183ba90b3b7