Tag Archives: Harper’s

Promises kept?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [A] cruise ship hosting a music festival promising “six terrifying nights of music and madness” crashed into a pier in Jamaica.

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Animal news. Sort of.

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Godzilla was named police chief of Tokyo for a day. A Floridian huntsman fired a head shot at a man whom he mistook for a turkey.* A burglar in a catsuit was caught on camera performing … Continue reading

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Keeping up with the Strongmen

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose major political rivals are dead, exiled, or incarcerated, won reelection in a contest that one protester called “a farce” and one human rights campaigner called “an insult to elections.”

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