When my brother became a flight attendant, I learned that their primary function is to ensure passenger safety. Flying really must be SO safe.

Pretty, but not other-wordly enough to justify holding me captive in a sealed can at 10,000 ft where I can't get away.

There's controversy around this? Yes, she's too young to be a supermodel.

I thought Jian Ghomeshi was the tussler? Also I find the phrase "literally lived on a nut farm" so confusing - does the literal pertain to both the living and the nuts, or just the living?

Plus rather than banning they could make a section just for women and kids; lots of places there have those.

Corey was called in as a special prosecutor after the original prosecutor failed to charge Zimmerman. She managed TO charge him and was on HLN the day after his acquittal saying the man had gotten away with murder. Folks who criticize her on the difference between the Zimmerman outcome and Alexander's are holding her…

This site's Dodai Stewart has pointed out that the sparkle as been off of Johnny Depp for a while. Once the guy who made every girl and her mom sigh just by the mention of his name — if this doesn't consecrate his status as weird old dude, don't know what does...

http://jezebel.com/dear-johnny-de…

Overall - pretty darn Anglo-Saxon-y bunch - plus, Denzel. I mean, really...

I came for Gerald Broflovski as a dolphin... and it looks like I'll have to do it myself...

I love how our "lazy," "selfish" generation does supposedly does nothing but is responsible for messing up everything...

I think this particular "evolution" is a deliberate appropriation so that folks can add drama to undramatic problems. It's NOT the same as poo-poo'd because that reservoir of meaning about social turmoil and recrimination is still signified in "shame" - but, really, that recrimination and turmoil isn't actually…

Also that no one our age can afford to buy stuff when it's NOT sale because economic legacy of the boomer generation mmmmmm thanks, guys.

I hate how any expression that doesn't celebrate someone's unique special snowflakeness is "shaming" these days. Ever read the Salman Rushdie's novel, "Shame"? His thoughts on "the polarity of honor and shame," its relation to violence? Yeah, having your vax choice poo-poo'd doesn't count. In fact can we resurrect…

Midwifery's pretty "columbused" lately, given that how wide spread home birthing was at the beginning of the last century among immigrants and within non-white communities...

I am so sorry for your loss. Yes, personally I believe Assad and his regime are nothing but thugs and I hope he pays for the harm he's inflicted. I lived in Venezuela when Chavez was in power and many things about Assad remind me of Chavez's m.o. - as you put it, just caring about his own power. I just don't feel I'm…

Yea, it's crazy to look at these pics. My older brother has similar coloring to that blue-eyed kid, I'm more like the kid behind the flowers, and my younger brother is darker yet. Our family moved to Minnesota when we were teens and no one believes we're related. Then I look at pics from here and it's exactly the same…

Our surname name is still in the village but my family came over a couple generations ago. I have an auntie who used to go back to the village for vacations and sleep in the house her father grew up in; obviously, before all this started. I still hope to go myself one day.

I keep tabs on the place by following the…

Jesus, dump him already.

Well, to hear the opposition tell it, or the Free Syrian Army, anyway, and the coalition of Syrian American groups who've united on the occasion of this conflict tell it - we're not doing nearly enough to support the forces opposing both Assad and ISIS.

"Airstrikes alone will not defeat the Islamic State. Despite…

These little dances of gestures and gaffes are what diplomacy is made of. Really if you think about it, if any one party is TOO comfortable, shit's probably not going well...