Lifeguards Issue no. 217 Summer 2016 In the deep end of the rec lane the old white woman is treading water and talking with the obese black man who should be eight feet tall. A judge has ruled that, according to the length of the man’s leg bones,
What’s Scarier: Library Fines or Turning into a Scarecrow? October 27th, 2017 Last Thursday, at the New York Public Library’s Countee Cullen branch, in Harlem, city officials gathered to announce the forgiveness of all fines on cards held by borrowers aged seventeen and younger. It was a recognition that even the be…
Hacks Britannica: Reviving an Olympic Tradition of Crapness July 31st, 2012 At the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, to which Britain did not send a delegation but at which it did earn two medals by virtue of owning Ireland, the first-place finisher in the marathon, a New York City bricklayer, was disqualified for having covered el…