We have never intervened militarily in another nation to protect the rights of LGBT individuals, nor would we, particularly when broad swathes of our own nation still don’t acknowledge the humanity of those populations in the first place.

Bourdain was an advocate for women. He also used his platform to give a voice to the largely brown and Spanish speaking staff who make up the backbones of our restaurant industry. 

I am so sad. That fact that Eric was the one that found him makes this doubly devastating.

I absolutely got your point, Prachi.

You’re correct! I’ve made the change. Thank you for catching.

I clicked to that article yesterday via someone’s Twitter feed. Very thoughtfully written. It seems entirely possible there was an honest misunderstanding on both their parts and Takei backed off immediately when he realized that. Doesn’t excuse his appearances on Howard Stern. But I think the author makes several…

I feel like he was briefly crucified, but then, more or less, exonerated by the lack of follow up. We said “oh shit,” expecting there to be more, after this revelation, but no one else came forward. Maybe, maybe Takei was rapey one time, but usually rapey creeps have a pattern.

I didn’t think Takei was still…

I encourage you to join a support forum for partners of BPDs (BPDFamily, for example). You’ll find that many people share your experience. As for it “clearing up”...there are regular posts by people asking if they can make it work, and the most common response is that it does not get better. In fact, many folks report…

It does get better with age (I’m in my late 30s now thank god!) but I’ve also put a lot of time into therapy and meditation. Encourage your partner to seek help because BPD is treatable and it can get better.

Dude, they’re clearly referring to a dysfunctional savior/savee (?) relationship cliché, not to mental illness specifically.

I was diagnosed with BPD at around the same age Pete is - I also thought I had an addiction problem but it was masking deeper issues. Knowing his childhood trauma issues it is not surprising. My BPD has actually totally cleared up as it does for most sufferers with age. I had to work on getting to the source of my own…

I can bet you after a few weeks of homeless people spending most of their time there, because places like Starbucks are seen as safe locations that they won’t get robbed, beat or raped, their will be a * to the policy in some form or the other.

I want to see if this policy applies in New York City where you always need to buy something and punch in a code to use a bathroom that resembles a landfill. They are not going to want all the homeless people clogging up tables like the library. As for Starbucks, they need to hire more Black managers and have…

Listen, you can still be a musician/model/actor even if you haven’t booked any gigs yet, okay?

Get a load of this: Cohen’s financial records from the Treasury database were leaked by an official who became concerned that other, much more alarming reports appeared to have been wiped from the records.

Jezebel, where it’s the fault of white people that Azalea Banks is an asshole to anyone more famous than her.

Great article and quote, but you left out this... “After all, we have a wealth of evidence about coffee’s effects. Meta analyses have shown that coffee is associated with lower risks of liver cancer, and no increased risk of prostate cancer or breast cancer. When we look at cancer over all, it appears that coffee — if…

He’s basically saying - I like Trump because both he and I are tyrannical narcissists and thrive off attention.

Cool, with the name I was able to find a transcription of it. Might be good fodder for future articles.

My lukewarm take: SJP actually doesn’t support her but knows that she’s built her career on the SATC girl’s girl image (and she’s spent the past few months savaging another cast member) so she know’s she can’t not support Cynthia now. And I don’t even mean she doesn’t support her in a bad way, I mean she doesn’t know…