I don’t hate people who recline their seats, even without asking. I hate people who suddenly SLAM THEIR SEATS BACKWARDS WITHOUT WARNING. I apply to them the same terminology that Withnail uses for Uncle Monty.

In an era in which people frequently use laptops, this could lead to damage to the screen; I’ve seen people…

I’m an East Coaster and the one time I went to CA, I made point to get an In-N-Out burger. It was okay. I was promised the best fast food burger of my life, but I think I still prefer Five Guys.

Marketing research found the original tagline “Where’s Your God Now?” didn’t test well.

most dizzyingly atrocious musicals of all time

Depressing/eerie summer reading:

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions in the media about why this product is important. It isn’t to let vegans taste meat - they mostly don’t care. And it isn’t to be healthy as so many articles seem to believe when comparing its nutritional value to real meat.

To Skeffles who dismissed me-

If Buttigieg ends up the nominee or the VP nominee or even runs for senate or governor, I can easily see some right wing attack machines using Peck as a shield to scare voters by claiming that Buttigieg must be sexually promiscuous, all gay men are. And then hide behind Peck’s skirts when called “homophobic”.

I can imagine how an admitted insomniac manages to fall asleep on an airplane strictly because it's night time: they don't actually have insomnia. They are a person who has trouble winding down at the ends of the day or drinks too much coffee throughout the day and decides that's the same thing as a sleep disorder.…

JFK and Bill Clinton managed to do the job while juggling plenty of extramarial sexual relationships. With women.

The moment I read “as a gay man” I knew what we were in for. Being a member of a group doesn’t give you the right to speak for everyone in that group. It lends credibility to your opinions but it does not change the fact they are your opinions.

Have you spent time in Indiana as a a non straight person? I ask, thinking of the ex girlfriend I had who came out as lesbian to her Hoosier parents in the 1990s and they cut off paying for college and tried to get her to go to a deprogramming place. She finished paying off the loans a few years ago. Her older brother…

That’s why I’ve become a 6 a.m. convert when it comes to flights. Especially in summer, where the weather always gets worse as the day goes along and one rogue thunderstorm can screw up your whole itinerary.

Rich Juzwiak not understanding something because it doesn’t fit his extremely privileged worldview is such a common occurrence on this site that we could fill volumes with the text.

Thanks for the perspective, but you really don’t think that a historically progressive magazine like The New Republic publishing an article that argues that because a gay politician came out relatively later in life than the current norm, he won’t be able to focus on his job because he’ll be too busy exploring his…

Rich has mad an online living of criticizing people for not coming out quickly enough. None of the above is at all surprising.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

Disagree. As someone who cannot sleep sitting up, taking the red-eye usually costs me an additional day on the end to get back into a normal sleep schedule. I avoid them whenever possible. Also, if for some reason, your flight is cancelled, typically, there isn’t a “next flight” for you to try to get on, until the…