I suggest she adds The Rock and a lot of muscle cars to the story. She could probably squeeze out another 6-7 seasons that way.

I will be watching Sam Bee’s correspondence drunken party for sure.

Alot of our fellow citizens seems to have a hard-on for authoritarians. It’s fucking weird.

I don’t think I’ve ever met a libertarian that I liked.

Libertarians - until they need something. Libertarians lack imagination - and empathy. And dare I say, life experience.

They don’t need to get him off the plane. They (arguably, because it was their own people who needed accommodation) needed someone off the plane. Bodily removing a passenger should not be on the list of options unless the passenger is themselves violent or a danger to others.

There are a few good commenters over there, but man, when io9 was moved under the Gizmodo umbrella and the approved commentariats were combined? The high quality of the io9 comment sections was immediately dragged so far into the gutter you can barely see it any more.

I know. I’ve been in a comment war over there. People seem so desperate to blame this guy. I really don’t get it. The issue isn’t that this was united policy- the issue is that a nonviolent man angry about an terrible customer service issue was bloodied and injured. That is insane. I mean, if I try to return a sweater…

Right? I’m a doctor. I’m the only specialist of my kind at my hospital. If I don’t show up, 40-50 cancer patients don’t get treated. No joke. I would have panicked if they told me I wasn’t getting home for my shift.

The comments over on Gizmodo are depressing AF. To paraphrase, the elderly doctor deserved it, should not have raised his voice, should have just used his “cell phone to re-book patients from his hotel room,” and that this whole incident has been entirely blown out of proportion.

Even though it’s not on my mind much anymore, I needed those words.

It’s almost like Toxic Masculinity isn’t something solely dreamed up in the mind of commenters on Jezebel.

I was talking to a coworker today and said “I bet this is a wife that left a husband and now he went to her work to killer her.” Fuck I hate being right.

As someone who’s struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts for 16 years, you’re being incredibly cruel to label suicide as selfish (and triggering, btw). It’s the act of the mentally ill, who usually believe that everyone will be better off without them. The time I came closest to doing it was the darkest night…

There is a big fucking difference between people who are suicidal and family annihilators. Don’t you dare conflate the two.

This is the same argument for people who argue in favor of management over labor. Theoretically, only a tiny, fraction of a percent of people should be making those arguments, yet, anecdotally, it is an alarmingly large percentage.

Thank you. I hate how similarly some people and media outlets treat suicides and murders followed by suicides. They’re very, very different things.

It’s like saying “bless you” after someone sneezes. Another shooting? “thoughts and prayers.”

Who could ever get over the trauma of seeing your teacher killed in front of you? What have we come to as a culture? For those who this kind of news overwhelming, may I recommend the soft pleasure of the series “Escape to the Country” on Netflix? It’s like Househunters, but with very polite English people looking…

Scummiest thing an airline ever did to me was bump my toddler from a flight.