I was literally in Dulles this morning - I had no idea, didn't stop to look at prices. If this is true, I'm going to have some adult beverages before I fly home Friday . . . thanks for mentioning this!

Don't tease him with something he can't have. He's bitter enough to only be 14.

My wife is Japanese (hence my reading of this article in the first place), and so we probably notice discussions of things like this more than most, as we contemplate whether or not to have a child.

I know they prefer it - I've seen my in-laws compliment my wife for having much fairer skin than her sister.

I think this is the winner, personally. I'm glad my Japanese wife and Anglo-American self will be able to emigrate their when we decide to have a little half-er of our own. . . our marriage is hafu, after all, that should count for something.

By this logic, should we call Asians 'yellows'? Because I feel like I should get to call myself whatever the fuck I want to.

Who, relevant to this discussion, has a foundation devoted to helping multiracial kids overcome discrimination in South Korea.

You are doing an awesome job of disproving the common belief that the Japanese are polite.

subjective. How subjective beauty is.

A, E, I, O, U - right? That's why they call it pentatonic, I think. . . .

I've got several clients with pretty large SAN / virtualization architectures, mostly healthcare contractors for the Federal government. My involvement with them mostly entails making sure they are FIPS 140-2 encrypted, there aren't 50 people who can access the dashboard and change crap, and that they are big enough…

I rest our case.

They can call it "Cabin Pressure"

I had a guy beside me once mention that he had a nut allergy on a Delta flight as the flight attendant was handing out peanuts, no less. She apologized to him, saying that normally she was informed when a customer had an allergy in the manifest. Of course I'm literally about to tear into some Delta honey-roasted…

Might I ask what you do for a living? I'm in IT Audit / Security consulting, and probably rack up between 20-30 flights in a whole year. I know that isn't a whole lot, but I'm wondering what kind of work puts you on a plane every couple of days like that.

One Hundred Thousand Times This: I always DVR Jeopardy specifically so I can fast forward through those awkward, awful 'chats' with the contestants, and I do the same thing with call-in shows on the radio. Why the hell would I want to hear some amateur doofus prattle on - isn't that what they pay the professional…

Ok, please don't misinterpret this question, it's just genuine curiosity: If you don't eat meat, what is the big draw for you at Chik-fil-a? Or was it just a question of national / regional chains that have an HQ there?

Well, I've seldom been more happy to have taken something out of context then; I just couldn't bring myself to stay quiet when I saw what seemed like a warning sign, having once ignored all of them myself.

Sounds like you have it pretty well covered now, but I live in Nashville, so if something still needs to be done I'm willing to try.

My wife's birthday is on tax day . . . and so help me, I'm an accountant.