• February 13, 2012

inappropriate

Before “Pearl Harbor” was reduced to a three-hour reel of explosions starring overpriced wooden puppet Ben Affleck, it was a place where a bunch of American soldiers were attacked by a bunch of Japanese soldiers these seventy years ago today. A Day of Infamy, if you will. You may remember from every commemorative evening news [...]

Were you lucky enough to have a real, live astronaut visit your elementary school back when public schools still existed? Bet the kids were so so super excited!!! We definitely were, because, of course, even a low- to middle-tier astronaut is several orders of magnitude cooler than anyone who hasn’t been weightless in Outer Space. [...]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: The filthiest, most repugnant and most accurate thing your associate editor has ever written about an American politician makes its way onto the front page of this lovely New York magazine article about Joe Lieberman. [New York]