A SOLAS manual release EPIRB is under $400... you can get cheaper ones, under $250, if you wanted to get one heavy duty and one backup. I wouldn’t go offshore without one at all, it just seems so easy a step.

You can be perfectly responsible, and take all precautions, and still have a moment where you have to set off the EPIRB. People who do that on boats know that they’re going to have to step off what is often their single biggest investment, often one which isn’t even paid off.

I read a story about a family sailing…

From what I’ve run across from better blue water sailors than I am, Hawaii to Tahiti is the direction you want to go in, but I’m seeing that the trades are from the east at that time, which would mean you could indeed turn back... did they have no maps? No GPS? That seems almost impossible to imagine.

I’ve never heard…

If I saw someone who had been lost at sea for months, on their own boat with functioning electrical systems, I’d just completely expect they would have made an attempt to cobble together some kind of basic rig, put some of their canvas in the air to push the boat in some way. That doesn’t look like something where…

If they didn’t have an EPIRB but they had a water maker and a year’s worth of food, it’s as if they went to the park on a rainy day armed with a flamethrower to ward off bears, but didn’t bring an umbrella to keep dry.

EPIRBs can cost under $250. Get two. Hell, get six of them. It might have taken more than a few days…

If you asked whether the dude you concussed was okay, maybe they wouldn’t be trying to fight you. That’s my point. He seems like trash. Hope he enjoys his suspension. I also hope he enjoys getting his fingers sprained and his eyes poked out over and over again the next time he plays the Ravens. I’m figuring there are…

It was hard to watch. The expression immediately on his face was scary, and it just stayed there.

Which is fundamentally stupid given that no one ever gets hurt when anyone throws a punch that I can recall (helmets, facemasks, gloves, mouthguards,) but a dirty hit will cost some guy the memory of his first kid being born eventually.

He also could have shown some trace of concern after he clearly, clearly has scrambled the guy badly. The expression on Flacco’s face was instantly pretty scary. He looked concussed immediately. Alonso spends the next how many minutes charging around like he’s looking for who insulted his mom?

Well, now, they might have exceptional gay conversion facilities. World-class, even.

I think this is a garbage decision by the Yankees. I’m disappointed, and I think it’ll mean they lose next year as a meaningful shot to get better.

That would define wasted time.

I’ve always had a positive impression of the guy, and he’s played tremendous football.

But he’s really, really a hard guy to pull for at the moment, it seems like he’s going out of his way to be sort of prickish.

Oh, I’ve heard people use “architect” as a verb.

The kind of people who use “effort” as a verb love it.

They are awful, awful people.

The kind of people who would totally be in a meeting with... Ivanka Trump.

Happy birthday, everyone, hope you have an otherwise great day.

“Bye weeks? Bronko Nagurski didn’t get no bye weeks, and now he’s dead... Well, maybe they’re a good thing.” -Moe Szyslak

I get that shots on goal matter, but it’s a sign of his durability blah blah that he’s SEVENTH all time on the passing list... that’s higher than I had possibly imagined, in abstract. Seventh all time on touchdowns, as well. Sixth on all time completed passes, and it just kind of goes on...

Scratch the question on ‘Melo. I can see that everyone who’s scored anywhere around what he has is in the HOF for the NBA, so I figure he would be as well... I stand corrected.

I liked Carmelo as a Knick, despite all the press and complaining from fans, but do you think he’s making the HOF? I figured his lack of deep playoff runs would kill him.

With Manning, I remember looking up his stats a year or two ago and being genuinely shocked at how high up the overall career lists of QB stats he…

I envy people who like a burned marshmallow. Saves time.

I’m pretty sure trolling Browns QBs is being done, as always, by god himself. He’s got it in for them.