It would have been nice if Messi had at least contributed his fair share to our Social Security welfare state like Ronaldo has. ¿Pero qué le voy a hacer? You can take an Argentinean out of Argentina, but....

Did they confiscate your full stops at the airport or something?

Italy and Portugal are your underdogs in the Euro 2016: you heard it here, Jalopnik and and LifeHacker punters! Sleepers I tellz ya! This Chris T. Anio is overrated and over played! Go with Pirlo and Cato, the newest names in foot kick ball!

No, he's not going to go to jail. A suspended sentence here in Spain is nothing like in the U.S. It's not like piss tests. It's almost literally, "this time we're not going to send you to jail because we don't have room for a lot of people."

I don't!

I do seminars on U.S. law, contract drafting, help the Spanish lawyers with common law concepts, answer their questions, verify their translations are correct (but I myself don’t translate). I don’t go to court and my name is not attached to any legal documents. The lawyers do not bill for my time. It's a good job and…

No problem at all. It also doesn’t help that the penalties are so modest. And that’s true across the board for crime. The maximum sentence in Spain is 40 years (terrorism-related offences, 30 years for all others). Nobody would ever get close to that for tax evasion or tax fraud. A few years at most. And even if you…

Top rate is around 50%. It used to be 25% (referred to as the "Beckham Law"), but that was derogated. No, it's not called the IRS. No, they're not called the IRS here in Spain. The tax authorities are the "Agencia Tributaria", colloquially referred to as "Hacienda".

I can answer some of this. I’m a non-practicing U.S. lawyer who works in Spanish law firm (I’m more of a consultant than anything else), and I deal with Spanish tax law on a daily basis. I’ve also lived almost half my life in Spain and am the husband and father of Spaniards.

I'm a non-practicing lawyer in a Spanish law firm. Tax law here isn't nearly as difficult as in the U.S.

Maybe it's a tattoo of a butthole?

Paying the medical bills for terminally ill children and paying his taxes (unlike others who evade paying taxes in the country where I live, Spain, that would go to the public coffers and in no small part to the national health system, helping terminally ill children).

Haisley's right, Ronaldo is dastardly!

And, according to the Wikipedia entry on his dad, "At the age of 17, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served for two years in the Submarine Service during World War II." So that part does stand up.

Both people in that interaction are insufferable.

Greg Ostertag was a douche who used to bring his trash from home and dump it at our middle school (his kids were in elementary school). And Bryon Russell used to berate the waitstaff at a place I worked one summer.

The only explanation other than inebriation seems to be carbon monoxide from an exhaust leak. I suggested that possibility in another response noting it happened to me and my wife while driving. Not saying that's what happened, only that I agree fatigue doesn't seem like the answer here. Not with two people running…

One other possibility is carbon monoxide from a defective exhaust system. I've had that happen to me once with my girlfriend, and now wife, driving between DC and Philly. I was becoming increasingly drowsy and nothing was abating it. Later I figured out there was a leak in the exhaust system. It was extremely strange…

I’m from Montana spent my teens in Utah watching Malone and Stockton lose to Jordan. Moved to Philly for undergrad and watched Donovan puke, then Michigan for law school, watching them lose to THE Ohio State when they were one and two.

NBA Corollary: Hiphopcracy is the tribute that David Blitzer paid for the 76ers' '96er.