Or force feeding a grown man against his wishes. That definitely says "respect for human dignity".

I once jumped all over a relative who said listening to her makes him wince. When I explained the condition this BRILLIANT, long-time broadcaster has that requires injections into her larynx (botox-ish) just so she can sound half way unquavery, THEN asked him how HE would feel if part of his job was to listen to…

Maybe I'm just an Amber Rose stan (confirmed), but I thought she was pretty damn diplomatic in that interview. And I love that she's a girl's girl and stands up for her friends when their husbands run off to fuck teenagers, yet still manages not to say anything about the teenager in question worse than "she is a…

i am also totally team jack white on this; the commentary (from the Jezebel author) was kinda petty and scrapin' the bottom of the barrel in my opinion. slow news day?

I gotta say, I also often refuse to use capital letters. And Icky Thump exists. And he looks a bit like Edward Scissorhands which is sexy. So yeah I'm ok with it - Team Jack White.

Really? Nothing like interpreting somebody else's words for entertainment value. Except your interpretation wasn't the least bit entertaining. I'd say his requests are pretty reasonable when compared with the likes of say...Jennifer Lopez. His requests are reasonable when not compared to anyone else actually. …

I don't know who this guy is, but he's right. Listening to the NPR story this morning made me want to make that guacamole.

It's is much ado about nothing, which is his whole point. This writer is trying to make him look petulant and awful, but really he's being quite reasonable (and snarky, but who doesn't love a bit of deserved snark?).

Exactly. It's a 22 page legal document. I looked and saw that it's mostly financial stuff, and specifications about equipment.

do people STILL not understand what contract riders are ACTUALLY for? the REAL purpose of these oddly specific riders is so that management can walk into a room and know weather or not the venue has actually read the whole contract.

This seems like a pretty reasonable response on his part. I don't particularly understand where the paragraph by paragraph snark is coming from.

...Is it bad that this seems pretty reasonable to me? I mean, refusal to use any capital letters aside. The original rider seemed pretty standard, and definitely not worthy of as much as has been written about it, and I'm sure it's got to be annoying to still be talking about it to anyone that interviews him. Plus, he…

So after being on tour, of sorts, I understand riders.

I HAVE A BANANA ALLERGY!!!

No, really, I do. It's super mild, though people really like to be healthy and substitute banana in baked goods, and then not tell me, despite knowing me and my allergy. So whenever anyone offers me a cookie I have to question the ingredients and then they look at me like I'm crazy like…

Love him, love this, love all his music, and he is hands down the very best musician I have ever seen live- all three times and hopefully many, many more to come. ETA: I CROCHET! Knit too! I can help you with that new hobby....

I'm a tremendous connoisseur of high quality snark. Absolutely love it. However, I'm thinking that Jack White's open letter was a genuine response to the release of the rider. The attempted pile-on strikes me as a bit excessive. I'm not seeing one-tenth the diva potential of Kanye West in Jack White's reply. No…

A lot of time these riders are so the band knows the venue is paying attention to other things in the contract that are more important. And let the guy eat whatever he wants.

Bet he was making this face the whole time he wrote this.

Maybe I'm too liberal but I don't see the big deal. I wish parents were more honest and say that they're uncomfortable looking at half naked people and leave kids out of it. Kids for the most part don't give a shit about a lot of stuff parents worry about. How will this cover harm them?