I don’t think you get to be a nationally-recognized brothel owner if you have a huge amount of respect for the sanctity of family.

Yeah, I always ask. I don’t mind killing time in airports, especially since the airline change usually necessitates a terminal switch. I DO, however, try to exclusively book early-as-fuck flights if I have anywhere I need to be on the opposite end, just to maximize my chances of finding a backup option.

I hate them all. That also saves me from making sweeping pronouncements like “I’m never flying United again.” I don’t fly often enough to get significant status on any one airline, which to me is the only reason to pay more for one airline over another, so I will fly whatever is cheapest because they all suck equally.

Yup, those are the magic words. That and being super clear about your destination, as you were—I once spent 45 minutes arguing with a customer service representative about my cancelled flight to Minneapolis, only to have her finally exclaim in frustration that there were simply NO seats available to Chicago, where I’d…

I didn’t say it does no harm. I said I hope it does more good than harm. It’s possible for a huge, complex initiative like this to do both.

That said, this was kind of mind-blowing for me to learn. I brought up the topic of pinkwashing with my mother, thinking she would agree as she’s not the flag-waving type, and she told me for the first time that her best friend died quickly and painfully of an extremely aggressive breast cancer in the late 1970s, and…

Agreed! Baking in parchment or foil is super easy—you basically cannot screw it up and you don’t have to clean any pans.

Well, that’s what the entire article is about, so I assumed you brought up your point because you thought it somehow pertained to the larger question being asked. But maybe it was just a completely random interjection based on nothing! Silly me.

I agree that’s true. However, given what we know about this particular couple (e.g. that Khloe and Lamar got married after knowing each other for barely 4 weeks) I think it’s fair to say she couldn’t possibly have known the full extent of his psychological issues when he first became involved in the show, and to her…

The packaging was wrong from the start. Just think of that frame: the “titans.” When was the last time you heard a woman described as a titan of ANYTHING? For a story on “The New Face of Late Night” or “The New Guard,” I bet they would have pushed harder to find a woman. But it’s all too easy to excuse this kind of…

I don’t know that that’s substantiated in any real way, and this author didn’t seem to think so. They certainly were at her grave together on many occasions, but I find it hard to believe that two people of that era, or really ANY era, regardless of how unconventional and libertine, would be likely to do that. Mary…

Tangentially related, but interesting if you’re interested in the lives of women like Ada Lovelace:

If someone as famous as John Fucking Lennon can’t find an attractive man to sleep with, what hope is there for the rest of us?

This is a really interesting, thoughtful take on the issue. My mother had breast cancer when I was in high school, so I was told from the time I started receiving general gynecological care that I would have to start screening early, at 35. I’m 30 now and not only have the recommendations for care changed…

I still don’t know how her name is spelled and she is still one of the greatest characters ever in reality TV history. SAND FLOORS.

Yes, that is who I meant by “babygay” ;)

There used to be dozens of ads on Craiglist for apartments that listed the rent as $1 so they will show up at the top of your results when you search by price range. If I were young and desperate and broke again, I would probably assume this was some terrible broker trick, but that there might be something cheap worth…

Actually I’m a digital editor for a website that does news pickups, so I get paid to do this all day. Which is perhaps depressing in a huge cosmic sense if you’re a journalism geek, but this is literally my job, and I don’t find it depressing. What’s your excuse?

First of all, #1 is not earnest. Well-digested creations? That person get it.

I mean, I see no foul here. It’s one thing to be happy to see Donald Trump, Twitter-happy reality star, at your show. It’s another thing to let people think you want the guy to be President.