I mean, I’m redneck as fuck, spent most of my life in the Bible belt, don’t wear skinny jeans, and I’m a fan. He was on other networks before CNN. I’d be willing to wager a lot of people watch his show and nothing else on CNN.

Just adding to what you said. Aside from his shows and books, he also had a pretty big impact on the food and travel writing genera. I’ve seen some other great work that he inspired, edited, and/or published. By all accounts he was great to work with and was very helpful to a lot of folks trying to get into it.

Well said. Imagine wrapping yourself up so deeply in a culture war other toxic assholes invented to get you to vote how they wanted that you’d allow yourself to miss out on the kind of enjoyment Bourdain’s career could bring.

My best friend and I dressed up as Burt and Ernie for halloween about 8 years ago. Went out and got pretty hammered at the bars, and then I see down the street, Cookie Monster, just standing there. Well I thought it was a good idea to jump on his back, we both fell to the ground, and that’s when I feel a shot to the…

Counterpoint:

‘How far can a football punt you?’ - Reverse Raysism

If anything, the people of Renton are known for their nuanced but racist understanding of Washington State tax law.

12th man hates 13th amendment.

The horse-talking person has all the mental faculties of a horse in a person’s body (and vice versa).

Volvo’s caramel interior - Atacama leather in the mid-aughts R - is so soft, so sugarcravingly beautiful, it’s perfect to just sit in.

I bet The Slippery Slope would make a pretty good name for a winter game themed gay bar.

HOT TAKE: Lillard and McCollum are the most under-rated backcourt in the league.

I still firmly believe that if Griffey Jr never left Seattle he would have hit 800 HRs.

They’ve got Trudeau - WE need Marv MORE!

Be less dumb. Stereotyping is lazy and racist.

I too am an athletic white man, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Fuck you bootlicker.

crazy to think that someday we will all crawl into that huge pink mouth and huddle behind the shattered and tilted peaks of his teeth along the rolling wet hills of his McDonald’s-impacted gum line as he leaps, naked, out into space on a trajectory set for Earth 2, a quivering savior hurtling spread eagle through the…

I can’t find video of it but if you owned Smash Brothers for the n64, selected computer control for four jigglypuffs at the lowest ability setting, you ended up with a match in which it is plausible that our president is at the controls.... Jigglypuffs walking off platforms, not knowing how to get on the platform and…