One of my last business trips, I arrived early in the morning at Denver International, and my flight was overbooked and they wanted someone to volunteer in exchange for a $400 travel voucher, two meal tickets / vouchers (total was around $25) and a flight about 3 hours later. I was in no hurry as long as I got to my…

I am a bit phobic about air travel. I’m the spazzy person who white knuckles the arm rest and goes into meditative breathing anytime the captain mentions it’s time to buckle up because we have some turbulence ahead. But twice now I have been seated next to the only person on the plane who was more afraid to fly than I…

... Am I the only one getting uncomfortable at all the hate for his wife in the comments? Everyone seems to think it much more likely that she’s “manipulating” him, rather than simply having issues with the relationship as it was and discussing that with her partner. She’s being called a cheater, even though it seems…

Can’t both be expressions of feminism? I can wear pants and call it feminist, doesn’t mean wearing a dress isn’t feminist. It’s the empowerment to make choices for yourself, based on what you want, that makes it feminist. The fact that you get to make a choice to be monogamous is just as feminist as someone making a…

Yes, thank you for confirming you are exactly everything that’s wrong in the world today.

People will still have a choice to vaccinate or not vaccinate, too, there will just be consequences - not being allowed to enroll their kids in public school.

OY, I guess I am going down deeper into the neocon hole. You may not self-identify as a neocon, but you sure talk the talk.

“Moreover, since when does “no nuclear program” equal “no threat to American national security/interests”. I mean, there is the minor fact that Iraq was shooting at American pilots every single day. But that doesn’t count, of course. Or that Saddam was itching to restart the war with Iran, which unquestionably would…

There are a lot of bad people in the world. There are a lot of despotic dictators in the world. Yes, the focus is on WMD... and not a cache of biological weapons that were acquired through Western partnerships. WMD, the kind that represent a threat to American national security. WMD, as it was sold, very clearly meant…

And of course, there *were* autistic kids in their classes. No one called them that, because we didn’t start diagnosing “autism” until the 40’s, and our understanding of it as a spectrum disorder has grown over the intervening years. I’m a perfect example of someone who would easily have been identified as autistic…

There is no everything else! He wasn’t wrong about WMDs, the entire administration LIED about WMDs to gin up support for the invasion (which the rest of the world opposed.) C’mon man! This is no longer conjecture. This happened. Get your head out of the sand.

What makes me insane about conspiracy theorists is that the government does PLENTY of evil shit that’s supported by actual evidence and that is still happening. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but California did just get caught forcibly sterilizing female prisoners (which, I think, is a good reason to believe this is…

ooh! Ooh! My mom’s family is from S. Florida, so “family vacation” always meant “visit Gramma and Grampa in Ft. Lauderdale. Cool. It has a beach! My grandparents live like, on the damn beach so my brother and I would jump out of the car, throw on a swim suit and run head long into the water on a semi public-ish beach…

Oh he’s definitely a subscriber:

If you think about it, any story about food is the beginning of a poop story.

See now, I don’t get this. Do you also go to McDonald’s and order a “Double Decker Patty Sandwich With Special Sauce On A White Bun Adorned With Small Seeds Often Associated With Asian Cuisine”?

I never understood why the Starbuck’s system is viewed as being so difficult for some, and others will STAND THEIR GROUND about not using it. We had TONS of people coming in going “I JUST WANT A REGULAR CUP OF COFFEE!!!! NONE OF THIS TALL/GRANDE LATTE BULLSHIT!!! CAN YOU JUST GET ME A REGULAR CUP OF COFFEE, NOW!!!!!!”

does this guy ever go out and have fun?

Just reading that was exhausting. I think I’m going to take a nap. Who’s with me?