What amazes me is that he seems to have sent that e-mail to every single United employee. It's 2017. In what universe did he think that that thing wouldn't be forwarded to every single news organization post-haste?

Those two complementary round-trip tickets to anywhere United flies should be arriving in Spicer's e-mail box anytime now.

Or stop charging for checked bags.

I take my coffee black, like my eyes.

Atlanta does have that cool dinosaur skeleton in the waiting area. If only they had more outlets there.

[Jesus comes down from Heaven, establishes world peace and love for all mankind]

But he had changed! He had become the only hope for keeping Hillary out of the White House!

Not to mention their rapidly plunging stock price (market cap down $600 million and counting).

My local airports are hubs for American and Southwest, so the only places I can fly to on United are to United hubs, all of which I can also get to via American and/or Southwest. I'm not crazy about either American or Southwest, but it should be pretty easy to keep avoiding United.

It's sort of amazing to remember that as few as 20 years ago, most of Plano north of Legacy was still farmland, and that Frisco was a tiny farming community that was slowly turning into an exurb, and that 121 was simply a regular surface street.

And media corporations wonder why piracy is such a problem.

Why in the world would anyone want to get dressed up to sit in a cramped metal tube for several hours? I realize that flying used to be glamorous, but this isn't 1964. You might as well suggest getting dressed up for a dinner at Golden Corral.

Early reports say that 2 students were shot.

Yay guns! Merica!

I haven't updated my LJ since…2010, I think?…but I do want to maintain my archive, if only for personal purposes. I guess I need to figure out how to copy it to another source this weekend.

I've been to our local Hopdaddy's a couple of times, mainly because it's directly across the street from a movie theater I just saw something at, and I was hungry. The burgers are, indeed, very good. They're also very expensive and took a fairly long time to get to our table. There's a Steak'n'Shake about a mile…

I'll go to bat for Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy. After that, and his oeuvre gets very dire, very quickly.

I was a freshman in 1995, and I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, smoking in common areas had been banned by then. Indeed, I'm hard-pressed to think of anywhere on campus where smoking was allowed inside except for dorm rooms. Of course, that made pretty much every entrance to every non-dorm building a smoky…

I'm surprised that even 34% of college kids have their own accounts. If Netflix had been around when I was in college, I probably would have just used my parents' account.

No smoking in the dorms at all? You couldn't smoke in any common areas inside, but you could smoke in your own room, provided your roommate didn't have a problem with it. Given that they strived to put as many smokers together as possible, roommates rarely had a problem with it. We had a couple of guys who smoked…