Five best submarines of the Cold War? I’m on it. But the greatest true submarine campaign never (or only intermittently) went “hot.” Waged with advanced, streamlined submarines, hunting each other from the polar ice cap to the Eastern seaboard, the Cold War undersea “game” lasted for over three decades. In case of real war, these submarines would […]
Month: April 2014
You have to give Dan Snyder credit. He’s really given it his all in the race to become the Biggest Scumbag among American Sports Owners. Under normal circumstances he’d be the consensus wi
I suppose you could say Jeff VanderMeer was generous with his time when he agreed to do what turned into a 3,000 word-long interview about his new novel, Annihilation. A sample: SEK: The novel reads v
Albuquerque’s police is so notorious for shooting people that the Department of Justice recently ripped the department for its tactics. Not that this stopped the APD. A woman named Mary Hawkes was just killed by an Albuquerque police officer. Who was this officer? Why, an officer specifically called out by the DOJ report for killing […]
This is some delicious whining on the part of campus preachers — you know, the guys who stand outside buildings screaming at strangers while classes are in session: “He asked me if I had accep
You know Teddy Bear Martin Luther King, who never said anything that a contemporary Republican would disagree with and whose primary policy lesson was to oppose the affirmative action programs he actu
My son has a dino app on his iPad which bafflingly includes an animated vignette featuring two Moschops. Now, before we go any further, I should say that I had never heard of Moschops and had no idea how to pronounce the word “Moschops.” In my head I was saying “Moh-shops.” Nopechops, it’s pronounced “moss-chops.” […]
Ahead of today’s vote at Northwestern, the actions of proponents of the NCAA’s indefensible status quo were predictable: The president emeritus publicly said that a vote for the union coul
A high school acquaintance just sent me a message on Facebook saying he was blocking my updates because what I do “is despicable” — and this person’s official job title is, I k
Rape culture at Swarthmore College: Sendrow is a 23-year-old brunette from Princeton, New Jersey. Her mother is from Mexico; her dad is a Jewish guy from the Bronx. She graduated last spring and works in health care in Washington, D.C. If 3,000 smiling Facebook photos are a good barometer, her four years at Swarthmore seem […]
Child of a blood relative of SEK’s roommate, upon learning that SEK’s not a blood relative of his roommate: CHILD: So, do you have a last name? SEK: No, actually, I was born without one. C
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