No, it does not say “containing lycra.” It says (and I quote from my own pass rider paperwork) no “form fitting lycra/spandex tops, pants and dresses.” Leggings are lycra pants, ergo, no leggings when you’re pass traveling. They’re not asking you to go all biblical and not mix your fibers in your blouses or your jeans.

As I read the rules in their entirety, they strike me as less about policing what women wear, which I would consider to be sexist, and more about steering all non-revs away from flying is athletic wear (sweats/track pants) for men or athleisure (yoga pants/leggings) for women. The airlines just really don’t want their…

right, but that is the policy. they were not compliant. hopefully this forces united to change that dumb policy.

She was clearly the wrong candidate to run BECAUSE SHE FUCKING LOST TO DONALD TRUMP.

I’m not white but I hear what you’re saying. The liberal bubble is real, I guess.

White democrats might not have thought Trump could win the nomination, but there were plenty of coloured people saying that he’d win. They knew just how rotten America’s core is.

Stop relying on heroes. No individual can save us.

She’s almost single-handedly spearheading the implosion of the EU, all part of her misguided attempt to improve her PR image after the unpopular austerity measures she pushed earlier on. Maybe hold off on circling the wagons just yet.

I feel you, and I’d take a Merkel over a Trump a thousand times over, but I’m not interested in purity tests so much as addressing root causes in addition to symptoms.

I would argue that Russian involvement is less the problem than the people who were willing to vote for this fool despite what they could see in front of their faces. Whatever effect the Russians many have had was, in my opinion, marginal to the ultimate outcome. Yes margins matter in this case but under any rational…

Just because she’s not as bad as Trump (and she’s not) doesn’t mean Merkel isn’t awful — her cruel advocacy of austerity and neoliberalism bears much of the responsibility for Europe’s own right-wing/ultranationalist/xenophobic turn.

“Us Dems” need to realize that shit takes time. That every additional thing is a brick in the wall of a case. One of the biggest mistakes I keep seeing made is some of us thinking that there is one thing that takes him down. No, a case of things will take him down.

I appreciate this, but divorce rates in those countries aren’t a measure of “happiness,” which is what was being insisted on, yes? As if staying married to someone you didn’t choose in a culture where there are very few other options is a measure of success, and I don’t think it is.

John Churchill was a general and politician, he was made the 1st Duke of Marlborough by King William and Queen Mary, since he was a very good general (and, it is said, very good looking). He is probably most remembered for his victory at Blenheim (Blindheim/Höchstädt) in 1704 in the War of Spanish Succession. The…

I am just going to pick at the ‘long lasting’/divorce part. Cultures where arranged marriages are the norm are also generally cultures where divorces are vilified. A lack of divorce does not in any way mean that the marriage is happy or the partnership is equal.

I actually am going through a review copy of this book. Feel free to AMA about it, and if I have time I’ll answer it. This is the first book on the current royals that I’ve read in years, so my apologies for if what I’m passing on is either common knowledge, common wisdom, or wrong.

I lived in England during the final years of their marriage. The tabloids were ruthless about both of them. My British friends in their 20s thought all the royals were a joke.

At my college, there was a designated free speech area in a nice, green, central location. Almost daily, you could find a raving fundamentalist Christian white supremacist out there, screaming an endless litany of hateful bigotry. Sometimes it was fun to go stand next to him and scream counter-nonsense if you had a…

I don’t think anyone is putting any extra effort into dissing her, more like there is the anniversary of her death and the probable death of Elizabeth in the next year or so, so a lot of people are talking about her and its an effort to find something new. She wasn’t a blameless passenger in that marriage, and since…

I read that Diana had borderline personality disorder and that made me like her a lot less