Seattlest Pix 09Nov07
Around the Sound: The Week in News
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We learned a new word from a recent issue of Wired magazine: popcorning. It's a scientific theory involving "a chain reaction in which the accidental explosion of one nuclear warhead causes others in the vicinity to detonate, releasing lethal radiation for miles in every direction." (We are imagining some hungover crane operator over at the Bangor sub base, hitting this button when she meant to press that one.)
Meanwhile, our sports world continues its own Armageddon, and the wreckage is so thorough and complete that one finds it nearly impossible to sift through the rubble to find the which team was detonated first.
The Seahawks have not won at home in two months and seem firmly planted on two wins for the season as they head into a particularly tough stretch of the schedule.
The Cougars and Huskies face off in the Apple Cup, which this year should be renamed "The Horri-Bowl." The loser of this game is the hands-down worst team in the nation. But it could be even worse for the Huskies. Clay Travis of Deadspin paints the picture:
Signs your football team is in disarray: your most hated rival comes to your house to play, they have not won a game all season, have fired their coach, and...Washington is still favored by a touchdown. That's low, really low. You know what's lower? Washington has a bye week after this game before they play Cal. So the entire team has to sit around for another week and wait to finish out the season by getting the shit kicked out of them. Remember when the bully yelled he was going to kick your ass just as the bus pulled away to begin Thanksgiving break, and then you spent all of Thanksgiving terrified because you knew the bully meant it? Washington's bye week before Cal is the college football version.
(Predictions and schedules after the jump)
Saturday
UW at WSU (Noon, FSN, 950, 1090)
In keeping with the earlier analogy, we're picturing the scene in A Christmas Story where Ralphie gets fed up with getting picked on by the bully all year and unleashes his prepubescent fury to the amazement of everyone. The Huskies have a couple seasons' worth of wrath just waiting to come out. Or they could just show up in the bunny suit and shoot their eye out, like they have done all season.
Prediction: Huskies 33, Cougars 12
Sunday
Redskins at Seahawks (1:15 p.m., FOX, 710 KIRO)
Former Seahawks Jim Zorn and Shaun Alexander return to Seattle, both with a chip on their shoulder from how they departed during the last off-season. The Redskins have payback on their minds from last season's playoff loss to the Seahawks.
Prediction: Redskins 44, Seahawks 17
Don't like football? We wish we could help you out, but sadly, this weekend is all about the football, even though it'll have that same crappy feeling as when you have to go to your girlfriend's boss' wedding (his third marriage) and the music is awful and the food doesn't get served forever and you sit there at this giant round, paper-covered table with a perma-smile on your face talking to some boring-ass family from Kansas who have had way too much "Seattle coffee," as you quietly, somberly wonder what the hell you've gotten yourself into. Yup. Just like that.
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Look for the Hawks to keep it interesting. They've been beaten but hung tough the last couple of weeks and the Redskins have been coming back down to earth as well.
It's funny how the national media is suddenly starting to realize how horrible it is here when we've been saying it since the end of summer.
Once Burleson went out in week 1, I was convinced the season was lost.
You know we're bad when the NYTimes devotes a big 1st page (sport section) article about the fact that we're bad.
Usually, we don't exist.
Modern thermo-nuclear weapons are actually pretty hard to set off by intentional design. It is only uranium gun weapon style nukes or "Little Boy" style bombs that can be set off by an accidental collision but even then the fissionable uranium would just cook in fission but not attain a critical mass for a cascading reaction that would result in an nuclear explosion.
You could not believe the ritualistic precision that goes on at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor when it comes to dealing with nuclear weapons. Of course should we ever go to war with North Korea i am a couple miles from ground zero from Bangor.
you should read Apocalypse Nerd by Peter Bagge.
I grew up in Richland WA and had to do a lot of history and science reports on Atomic stuff. My dad is an atomic chemist and my stepdad is an nuclear engineer.
"I have become death the destroyer of worlds" - Robert Oppenheimer.