I disagree that this particular ban is an example of security overreach. I’m a huge skeptic of the TSA and its policies, but banning Li ion batteries from aircraft cargo holds is a wise move by the airlines — it is not being done by the TSA. Few people know or remember that a UPS 747 crashed in 2010 due to a Li ion…

It has nothing to do with sitting together. You can change seating after buying, and unless everyone has the same status, you probably won’t be sitting together on most airlines these days. Infrequent fliers who don’t want to pay through the nose of a couple of hours of feeling special will be sitting in middle seats;…

Too bad. Over half the acres in the National Park System are here in Alaska. I’m very glad to be able to enjoy those parks, in addition to many in the Lower 48 and Hawai’i!

It’s not like I really have a choice about “early” flights, living in Alaska. Nearly 100% of my out-of-state trips start sometime between 11 PM and 3 AM. If you wait until 6 AM to leave Anchorage, between the distance and the time zone changes, you can’t get to many Lower 48 destinations — especially those on the East…

I travel A LOT and this article is rather useless clickbait. What you seem to be telling us is that IF you are flying non-stop (not possible on most itineraries originating where I live, in AK), and if you either pay $25 to gate-check, or label your bag “fragile,” it MIGHT come out towards the start of the queue.…

The true monstah just leaves the empty brown cardboard roll in place. Maybe with a shred of white fluttering from one end.

I think there’s great potential in merging this Splinter article with the Lifehacker one on good Thanksgiving/cannabis pairings.

I like to eat while it’s still light out — also makes cooking easier. So that means by 3 PM for Thanksgiving, 2 PM for Christmas.

We experience winter driving conditions where I live for over seven months each year. My advice: 1) Own a car with manual transmission and all-wheel-drive. (I’ve got two Subarus, one 18 years old, one 10. There’s a reason my local dealer is the biggest grosser in North America.) 2) Live somewhere that allows studded…

I grew up in Australia. Huntsman spiders like this normally live in the bush, under gum tree bark, but adapt very well to living behind furniture and pictures inside houses. They tend to appear when you are moving said furniture, or on the ceiling just as you are falling asleep.

This doesn’t even make sense on a demographic level. There was a surplus of single women after Vietnam, because, you know, lots of the men their age were DEAD. What the pastor really means is that no human female over about age 16 was willing to date this doofus.

When our beloved dog disappeared a week or so after we got back from living overseas for six months (the dog was in a kennel the whole time), they should not have allowed us to spend the next month looking for it, putting up posters all over the neighborhood, and calling its name, over and over. They should have told…

Investigate Hilary!!!!!

I use an Aeropress or Bonavita drip coffee maker most of the time, but as a non-Luddite who’s been an environmental professional for the past 40 years, I have to correct your “facts” regarding Keurigs. I bought a small one on craigslist for $20 five years ago. It has no reservoir and only consumes power when it’s in…

According to Promethease,, I am a supertaster. (Also a bitter taster.) I love IPAs, Brussels Sprouts, and Dutch licorice.

Fruit salad in a Western hat.

It’s pretty chilling to hear that a Catholic institution wants to control ALL its employees’ personal choices like this. I don’t think one has to be RC to work for Notre Dame, and even if so, since when does this private educational institution get to pass judgment on actual human beings? Even bishops and priests…

But awareness of your emotions is a great first step. You will experience emotions — notice that they arise, then pass away. They do not define you.

Don’t believe everything you think. I repeat: don’t believe everything you think. Remind yourself of this often.

These are not cups of coffee; they are desserts.