Well said.

Same. We use the same pizza place all the time and they know there will be a good tip in it. Besides, they’ll still be doing all their weed deliveries so it’s not like I’m putting them out.

It really is hard. And the simplest idea I have is just openness. A dialogue where it’s clear that the “you need to do this...” comes from love/experience/knowledge and not ignorant “bootstrap yourself happy.” I’m speaking mainly through my personal experiences, though, and that colors my view because all of this is…

One good moment out of this: this weekend, a racist older relative was gearing up for a grand old rant on the Messicans when I pointed out (like the relative) Grande is Italian-descended Florida-American. The sputtering still warms my little heart.

Thanks for the article.

Well put. My partner and I have our various medical issues and it’s hard. There have been any number of times where I’ve hung on because moving sucks more than anything else. Eventually, it gets better, but it will be never ending and it’s hard.

I’m a completely unqualified internet stranger, but I don’t think you did wrong. Could, perhaps, there have been a “better” or some non-Platonic ideal of how to deal with it? Probably. But we’re all human and we have to balance the being there for others and the preservation of self.

My mother’s attempt to make me better as a kid was to put an “attitude adjustment chamber” sign on my door and tell me to smile all the time. In between her own depressive mood episodes that wracked the house with silent anxiety. So I can feel you some on the lack of empathy, to an extent. Know that you’re not alone.…

The WWC has ruined me on the men playing in the Gold Cup. So much diving, so little effort to chase balls...it really was a beautiful game for the length of WWC Canada.

Sean Avery has a latex suit with your name on it.

Altidore looked 80. Bradley’s slow passes were picked off, other than two set pieces that have people hailing him as a genius. The defense was confused the whole game.

Selfish and incompetent?

Seriously. Death, divorce, why I have to work, why they have to go to school, why we have no money...these are things that have difficult conversations. “Because they love each other” is a relatively easy answer to give kids.

I admire the underdog spirit, but there are a lot of us former players who haven’t let it go who’d be willing to fly to the pacific in a heartbeat. I have my FIFA papers ready to sign...

Agreed. I fecking hate onions. They are evil.

It’s a quarter inch of meat. Getting it too close to the lamp would cook it through. So...idiots all around, I guess.

I plan to bitch on the internet.

True, but the issue is entering the pipeline costs and it’s the travel team and sports camp kids that get scouted to move into the higher levels.

This makes sense, especially as the (maddening) initial function of these two players appeared to be “serve it toward Abby.”

The lack of attention to this did bug me, but I think the media didn’t want to bite the hand that was feeding them a feel good story about American minorities succeeding. In a post on another thread about something related recently (verifiable references, I know) someone brought up the cost of travel team soccer and…