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    ...you’re joking, right?

    It’s great that there are economic consequences for anti-gay and anti-trans legislation. Now I’m waiting for these same groups to do the same when states pass anti-woman legislation. I’d love to see organizations pull business from Texas because they don’t want to fund a state that thinks it’s okay for doctors to lie…

    OMG! A second story about this on here?!

    Leggings ban?

    Yes, but the rule they are literally citing is “shorts are acceptable in coach” and also “spandex is not allowed”. I am 100% sure that UA gate attendants are not materials scientists, so when asked to monitor the rules, they are given discretion.

    This was not about sexualizing little girls. This was a poorly handled…

    I have to agree. My dad was a pilot, so we grew up flying on non-rev passes. We were required to dress up, which in the early years - even when I was 6 years old - meant wearing church clothes. This was mandatory and there were no exceptions. It was a fair trade for getting to travel the world as a kid, in my opinion.

    This is like when Madeline Albright was refused entry to the British ambassador’s black tie reception, clad solely in 2 feet of tit-tape and an oven glove.

    It has been reported that the passenger was flying on a pass, and was therefore required to adhere to a more formal dress code.

    Fuck it. #TeamUnited. There i said it.

    If you really think people model their social behaviour off of a stranger’s vanity license plate then I can’t even begin to imagine how you can function in the presence of rap music.

    Actually, it makes sense that this man’s father would have tried to instill pride in his son’s German heritage. Canada, like the U.S., actively discriminated and even interned citizens with German heritage in WWI and WWII. It was common for places with German names to be “Canandienized” and changed to English names.…

    We had a similar exercise conducted at a hospital I worked at about 5 years ago. Our “trainer” was a knowledgeable, former FBI agent & just about the kindest man you could ever meet. The first thing he told us was, “you’re not Jack Bauer so stop pretending to be”. He said they’d get calls all the time about people…

    Fucking Magneto, how does he work?

    And the middle of a comedy act is obviously the right place to start yelling about it.

    Just ‘cause they passed the law doesn’t mean they’re gonna like it. Brown v. Board of Education was in 1955 [sic]

    So my take away is that it’s shameful to not pay attention to everyone equally in your comedy act, regardless of your unique, personal perspective.

    To be subjectively interested in one thing to you is equivalent to being purposefully dismissive towards everything else?

    If you’re not offended enough, you’re offensive to…

    Comedy is wrought from tension and subverted expectations. You can’t achieve that by simply saying things that people want to hear. His comments about Cosby show some genuine self-reflection and acknowledgement of how torn he is on seeing one of his heroes fall so far. Artists - comics especially - have no requirement…

    I love the way you guys attack everyone who might overall be on your side politically because they deviate at certain points. And then the next article will be full of comments about why all the BernieBros elected Trump, or the Steiners elected Trump or the Gary Johnsons elected Trump. Not about the people who voted…

    Bill Cosby was my first comedy album, my first comedy special. He was the guy who wanted to teach me to draw. He was the guy who did my favorite cartoon show that wasn’t Bugs bunny or Daffy duck, filled with kids I knew.