Huh. I actually ordered room service on a paid-for-not-by-me business trip and I felt like a goddamned queen. "Why yes I will have a $9 bagel with a dash of cream cheese and a $5 soda! Charge it to the room! Don't look at me in the eyes!"

It was the Sun Palace in Cancun. All adults, giant jacuzzis in each room, L'Occitane bath products, and a pillow menu! We have gone the last 2 years in a row and will go back next year hopefully.

And ludicrously well lit. Reminds me of astronaut helmets in movies that have lights on the inside with no purpose but to highlight the actors faces, which would result in them being unable to see, Oh hai, Prometheus.

Pro-tip: "Fazing" and "phasing" are two different words with two different meanings. You are welcome.

I like having a fridge in my hotel room. It gives me a place to put the 6-pack of beer I buy at the supermarket. Lose the minibar contents, but leave the fridge there, please.

"Enjoy this later on."

Good, maybe this will finally have a rise in hotel room refrigerators so I actually have somewhere to put my dinner leftovers for a change.

The mini-bar is a nice thing to have but not at 10 times the price. Maybe only screw us a little on the price and people would use it more.

I think that there's some middle ground, and if you're interested in the topic from an economic perspective, Amartya Sen is a great source for how rational choice is flawed in economics.

A grieving teammate used a colloquialism for ALL of his character virtues, and he died helping/saving someone he cared about. I'm an old-timey feminist, but FFS, this kind of pedantic nit-picking doesn't help the cause. Servati was, by all accounts, an outstanding human being doing something incredibly brave. Let's…

Damn. That is a Superhero way to go out.

I will admit that I landed on "Christian" and stopped but then immediately chastised myself for being a judgemental asshole. This guy seemed like he was a well loved, well respected all around good person... super sad story.

Optimistic thought: this is an argument that true altruism exists.

Born in 1993...good lord. Way too young.

Well, he was white and Christian and male. He clearly could not have been altruistic. /s

The one that really got me was the dad in Arkansas whose son died (also protecting his family.)
The dad was sorting through the rubble and found a photo of his son and simply said "He was a really good person, I wish you'd had a chance to know him"
Gulp.

Edited to correct: the family was in Arkansas, not Miss.

Can't wait to see how people manage to snark on this story

...no. Not to the extent that women are, and to think otherwise is ridiculous.

Last night I was listening to the radio in the car and one of the gross DJs was beside himself like "you have to see Rihanna's instagram, her like...things... are all like...out there...I don't even know what to call them!" and I was very tempted to call the station just to yell "They're called breasts, you slobbering…

I have to give a hand to Instagram for how they crack down on nudity. Not that nudity is bad, cause for the most part it's awesome, but some people post truly VILE things on instagram, and there's no filters, anyone can just accidentally stumble across it. And they don't pull punches and coddle the famous people.