As an author (a real one, published and paid and everything) I wholeheartedly agree with you. You make art and you give it to the world. What the world does with it is beyond your control. If you want to maintain control, keep it to yourself.

The reader is the character’s creator. All the author created was text on a piece of paper.

I completely disagree. Not because of your points about racism (which I also disagree with), but because Atticus Finch is not a real person, but the person you assemble in your brain when you read some letters on paper. Harper Lee is not shedding light on some reality of Atticus Finch, because there is no reality of…

Thank you. This is precisely how I feel about GSAW. Everything about its release is fishy and I don’t want to participate in it. The manuscript has been around for a very long time. If Harper Lee had wanted it published, she would have done it by now.

Yeah I’ve been a tennis player/coach/fan most of my life and it even annoys me that it’s a tradition. I think the sport would be more enjoyable if people could cheer throughout. Especially at the lower levels of the sport where you have no control over the noise (can’t tell the cars/cops/people at parks, etc., to be…

Serena Williams is amazing. She won her first major in 1999. Sixteen years ago! And now she's making a run at a grand slam. It's hard to think of too many athletes who have remained so dominant for so long. Tim Duncan? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? Peyton Manning? Babe Ruth?

Holy Shit. Nadal lost to Dustin Brown??

I don’t think I’ve watched a tennis match since Pete Sampras won his last U.S. Open against Andre Agassi 12 or 13 years ago, but I just happened to catch this match, and was rivited. Both women played their hearts out.

Watson isn’t unranked. She’s unseeded. She’s currently ranked 59.

Watson had her on the ropes, the crowd kept being too loud and Serena complained. They booed her and that was the turning point after Watson couldn’t convert in that game up a break to serve for the match.

Yeah I’m not always the biggest T Swift fan but she seems completely right here. If Apple wants to lure people in with a free trial, which is a totally standard marketing move, it’s on them to pay for it as part of their promotion costs. A hotel offering a free night’s stay to new visitors wouldn’t be able to forgo…

Thank you! You said exactly what I was thinking. I went to high school with the parents and know they are good people who love their kids very much. I haven't seen them in years but know that this video must have been made out of frustration On his part. I was surprised he did that because it doesn't seem like his…

OK, so, this is a tragedy. The victim here, undeniably, is this poor girl. No one’s disputing that.

Nope, this was Europe, it’s only on US flights you’re not allowed to walk in the aisles.

I don’t have kids, but once flew with my friend who has a 18 month year old, who was screaming her head off unless she was allowed to walk in the aisle (accompanied by her mother). This was not allowed by one b*tch of a flight attendant (there was no turbulence or whatsoever). So we had a screaming kid on our laps,…

I flew Frankfurt to Dallas (long fucking flight) with a family of 2 parents and 7 children in front, behind and next to me. (I can’t even fathom the stress of going through an airport with so many children.) The first thing the dad says to me when he sets his 5ish year old down behind me is “Haha, you’re going to get…

How about we all just live two doors down from our families so there’s no travel necessary? Or none of our children get to know their cousins / grandparents / parents’ places of origin? How about nobody gets to bring home their recently adopted kids because you can’t fly with them? I’m all for flights that are more…

Nope. You get to use the space in front of you. That’s where your hand baggage goes if you so choose. Or a child. The space under your own seat is not yours to use.

*Technically* don’t you stow your extra belongings in the seat in front of you? So technically she’s not using your space. It’s her space. But with a kid instead of a laptop.

Thank you so fucking much! Seriously!