First off I listed three points if you would like to address the war in Yemen and the fact that the we’re assisting Saudi Arabia who continues to work with AlQaeda I’ll be here.

Despite the colonial actions and war crimes taken against the Palestinian people Obama’s administration continued support of Israel’s actions.

Is this a joke? The last time the “democratic establishment” had control, they passed through the most sweeping piece of legislation since the Civil Rights Act. Obama squandered basically all of political capital passing the Affordable Care Act, and as a result the Democrats got hammered in 2010 and lost the ability…

Or you’re young? I’m friends with my high school ex. We didn’t speak for years and then reconnected over something and now we’re fairly close.

Well, the more compelling question, especially in light of the Salty Waitress’ views on essentially-mandatory 20% tipping, is what is an appropriate tip in a minimum wage state?

Right, but this is basically a more specific version of the entire argument against automatic or semi-automatic weapons in private hands in the first place. No one needs to be spraying bullets everywhere to defend against home invaders; if you shoot at someone in your living room at 2am once, I guarantee you those…

Your sarcasm is misplaced.  I think what the last few years have taught us is that these people and their shitty, bigoted views exist, and that we cannot change them, because if they were rational, intelligent people they wouldn’t think that way in the first place.  Continuing to shine a spotlight on them doesn’t make…

I don’t disagree with anything you wrote, specifically (except the Iraq War, which I think was and will one day be remembered as a just war, and it’s only our interpretation of how we got involved, which evolved as the aftermath imploded, which has given it a negative spin), but I do think it’s overly harsh to…

I am a slow walker. This is not an indignant response because the point of these fuck-you rants is to speak your own ragey truth, and also because I try to be respectful of other people’s need and desire to walk faster than I do and so I do not feel particularly indicted by this article. I will say that I feel there…

Hell, lots of men’s rooms have one handicapped stall and nothing else but a urinal or two. There are two such within 50m of me right now. Oh yeah, both are on the second floor and there is no elevator (unless you want to ride on a pallet raised by a forklift), so riddle me that one.

Yeah the handicapped guy was being a dick. The point of a handicapped stall is not that it is reserved solely for people with disabilities, but that the handicapped have a place where they can comfortably manage themselves on the toilet. I’ve had to wait for a stall before, and there is no reason a handicapped person…

I’ve been out to large group dinners where the alcohol bill is several hundred dollars. It’s a little crazy to me that I/we/anyone should be tipping an additional $100 dollars because a waiter opened half a dozen corks.  Tipping a lot for managing a table full of on-their-way-to-drunk folks?  Yeah, that warrants 20%+,…

I find it absurd that you’re spending $150 on a bottle of wine and quibbling about a $20 tip

The way I read the response is that Salty is educated the writer to the fact that the bottle is priced the way it is to cover the overhead of the restaurant. The same reason the food is priced the way it is. The markup on the bottle is no less standard than the food markup.

What an absurd answer from a normally reasonable column.

No, you just need to be part of a large enough organization that its unclear who is to blame

I didn’t make the claim that Israel isn’t racist. But the tone of the article is very clearly “these poor poor people living under the totalitarian thumb of racist Israeli’s”. That isn’t even close to an even handed approach; both sides of the conflict have legitimate grievances and both sides have blood on their…

Racism isn’t limited to America and takes vastly different forms throughout history and geography. Upholding a double standard is shitty, always, especially when not for a constructive purpose. Allowing blacks or gays or Latinos a leg up because they’ve been historically oppressed is a positive, constructive thing.…

Fuck this. Making a joke calling out white people specifically is absolutely racist. Does it carry the same historical negative weight that a joke about a Jew or a black person (or whatever minority group) does? Obviously not, and it’s obviously less objectionable.

No, it was not. I was explained why making jokes about people of other ethnic or religious backgrounds is worse than making a joke about white people. Which is true.