Author: Thomas Sullivan

We have so many “heroes” who are total bullshit: NFL quarterbacks, snipers, JFK, John Wayne, etc. So it’s refreshing to find one who isn’t. Out here in Hawaii there’s a guy with six names who […]

I’m paddling a kayak in Hawaii, listening to my guide tell an adventure story. He was out spear fishing in the ocean when a big fish swallowed the fish he’d just caught. The fish then […]

On Friday The Wall Street Journal reported that the operator of the McDonald’s chain in Japan was forced to recall almost one million McNuggets (which collectively contain one chicken’s worth of meat). The nuggets in […]

On Monday a member of Francois Hollande’s administration leaked a copy of a classified letter that the French President received. The correspondence, which came from former US President George W. Bush, was scanned and then […]

I’ll be getting on a plane this week, which has me thinking about the afterlife. Transportation experts say that flying is safer than any other form of travel. But they only consider things like aircraft […]

I attended a Catholic church as a kid. Halfway through mass a man would stop at the end of the pew and push a long-handled wicker basket down the row, seeking donations. One time my […]

Forget the cute puppy photos and those beach-selfies designed to make other people jealous. There’s really only one reason we have Facebook. It’s so we can stumble upon a story like this: According to the […]

We see groundbreaking sci-fi-ish inventions every year. I-phones and nanotechnology are admittedly cool, but the one technology we really need keeps eluding us. I’m talking, of course, about the Time Travel Machine. We urgently need this invention […]

If you’ve got a 16 hour flight ahead of you, what’s your single biggest fear? Forgetting your book? Worrying about being able to sleep? Nope, it’s having a 12 hour delay kick in – after […]