It's true, shooting into the ocean doesn't affect the tides.

That's why you shoot at the moon.

As God is my witness, I tried to come up with a Paul Manafort-Marie Kondo joke.

Maybe I should have made this a Tidying Up thread. I watched the first episode yesterday because every single (nonpolitical) blogger I read was talking about it.

If your attorney general isn't blocking investigations into your many criminal activities, thank him for his service, take a picture of him, and take him to a lobbying firm.

A nice, upstate lobbying firm where he'll be able to have a consulting fee any time he wants.

I guess 2 is the obvious choice. But I'd like to put in a good word for 1. Not knowing about cut-copy-paste in word is pretty mind-numbingly stupid, when you hold the fate of the world, or close to it, in your hands.

Co-sign on 7.

I'm confused now. I guess I've never had to redact anything. If I want to drop hidden text and metadata from a Word document, I do the normal thing and copy the text into a SAS program editor and then into a new Word document.

Maybe I should have made this a Tidying Up thread

My wife has been watching that show and I am very concerned that she is going to start getting unreasonable ideas about maybe getting rid of some of our shit.

The thrift stores should be at a high ebb in a week or two thanks to KonMari's show.

As God is my witness, I tried to come up with a Paul Manafort-Marie Kondo joke.

If something you own doesn't bring you joy, buy an ostrich jacket instead.

11: I had the same thought! Cheap Insta-pot, I'm looking at you.

7,9: Obviously the solution is to print out the documents, redact the desired parts with a black felt tip pen, and then scan them back into a pdf. How long could it take?

Email it to Gates, ask him to print it out and use a proper marker, have him scan it back in and email it back to you.