i guess my perspective is that athletes coming out matters today, so that athletescoming out won't matter in the future.

liability

it's almost an exact reversal of this cover that his madrid teammate, sami khedira, did for the german version of gq

god, la manif pour tous is really the worst.

this whole mess is just so unbeycoming.

as someone who only drinks wine and who has lived in both france and the us, i think the biggest difference between the two places is the degree to which "good" and "expensive" are synonymous in the us. when i was in france, wine was both cheap and delicious — i remember bringing a €10 bottle to a dinner party and…

i love how neighboring countries tend to vote for one another in solidarity....and then there's the UK and france.

ah, yes. as opposed to the halcyon days of the 1980s and "diggi-loo diggi-ley." such virtuosity! such musical sophistication!

just wait until they turn all those tables and chairs into a giant barricade and start a euro-revolution.

I miss the times when the quality of the songs decided the winners and losers.

like, as in a heavy metal music version of dolly parton, or a dolly parton cyborg made of metal?

atletico fans are absolute scum — after real madrid beat atletico in the copa del rey, their fans yelled racist chantsnot only at marcelo, but also at his four year-old son.

fuck analytic philosophy. go continental or go home.

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nice, but this is still the best goal off a counter-attack i've ever seen (from when madrid played ajax in 2011)

ever since i moved to the midwest, i've become super defensive of the vestiges of brooklyn in my accent, to the point where i sometimes make a point of differentiating between words like "caller"/"collar," "don"/"dawn," and "aaron"/"erin." i never felt strongly about it at home, but out here my accent feels important,…

i've lived in france for significant periods of time, and québécois still sounds like jack donaghy's fake french to me.

thanks! i am particularly pleased with it. ;)

what i love is how this mashup shows the coherence of this record — it really could be all one song!

There's also the fact that many Christians sects believe in evolution — I know that the Catholic Church's official position is "evolution happened the way scientists say it did (including the part where humans evolved from earlier hominids), only God was standing behind the scenes, making sure that it all went okay."…