My fiancee had the good fortune of working with him on an event a couple of years ago and all the anecdotal stories about Bourdain’s thoughtfulness, his cognizance, and awareness of racial, gendered, and socio-economic privilege are accurate.

There’s a certain kind of despair and unremitting hopelessness to want/need kill yourself, disregarding the inflicted pain not only to yourself but the ones who love them. They see no solution and are resolved in the fact that nothing or no one can help. This degree of suffering is unfathomable to most people since…

I appreciated how Bourdain evolved from the cheeky American asshole in Cook’s Tour to the more respectful “I want to be everyone’s friend” in No Reservations to the “food is just how I talk about the bigger stuff” guy in Parts Unknown. He cut down on the wisecracking (somewhat) and turned into someone who was…

Celebrity deaths never really phase me at all, but Bourdain is something else. His voice was one that said what I needed to hear. I’ll miss his interesting, entertaining and important work.

I’m more than a little surprised at how much Anthony’s death is affecting me. I knew I was a huge fan of his, and my wife jokes about my crush on him whenever we watch Parts Unknown, but I’ve been going back to all the news sites, looking for the articles that help me figure out why I’m so sad at my desk.

Me too. And yet we have gaping assholes like Trump who’s never done a good fucking thing for or to anyone running around care-free. It would never even occur to that malignant narcissist to kill himself.

you’re surrounded by saucy young jezebels who are going to destroy your reputation the first chance they get

The sexual abuse within the church is a feature, not a bug. Women are inherently inferior to men, and men own them sexually. Those beliefs, no matter how much they are couched in softer words, lead to abuse, period. Anyone who has read the bible knows that is not an accident, considering the book is full of slaves and…

There are a number of legacy families that can step aside—-the Clintons being just one.

No one says she wasn’t an adult. The argument is that there is a vast power imbalance and it is disingenous to ignore that fact.

Unless Clinton is going to say in one of these interviews “what I did to Monica Lewinsky was horrible and what society did to her was horrible” I think he really just needs to go away. These assholes think that #MeToo wants their support when all anyone really wants is for them to go away.

Because he sincerely doesn’t think he did anything wrong, but he doesn’t want to be lumped in with Trump or Weinstein or all the other enablers.

Bill was an anchor around Hillary’s neck in many ways during the campaign, but especially with regard to his history with women. She wasn’t able to hit Trump as hard as she could have because they could just throw Bill’s bad behavior back in her face. For the record, it SUCKS that she’s always had to be responsible…

Clinton didn’t ever apologize to Lewinsky directly, but that’s beside the point.

The idea that the recall will undermine judicial independence completely disregards the fact that recalls are part of the judicial system. Anyone making that argument is trying to bullshit you.

While I certainly appreciate the reminder of Slick Willy’s Pay For Play( or Pardon), I keep stumbling over the glaring fact that his wife DID NOT win the 2016 election, so I’m not really seeing the relevance here.

Trump’s continuous public bashing of his own AG has got to be one of the weirdest aspects of his Presidency. He bitches and moans about it every day as if he didn’t have the power to replace him whenever he wanted.

He’s like that dude who constantly complains about his girlfriend but is too chickenshit to ever break…

I’m glad that the cop did their job and protected you, but historically and currently the police as an institution aren’t doing well at upholding their responsibilities to queer and trans communities of color. I don’t think anyone literally doesn’t want a protective force at Pride, but for me at least, it’s weird…

I am a bisexual woman in a hetero-presenting relationship I say presenting ‘cause we have a lot of pan fun, but we keep that behind closed doors). We’re married, we have a kid that I drive to soccer practice, the whole deal. When I started dating my now-husband I was dating a woman, and have had two relationships with…