The pardon describes Downey’s “good conduct in the community of his residence since his release” and that the has “paid his debt to society.”

With LD’s exclusion from the World Cup, I could see two reasons why he was cut: JK didn’t want the drama of bringing him and not having him start or his form just wasn’t there (and he was dealing with fitness). Interesting enough, LD went nuts for the Galaxy after getting cut.

Not to mention Germany has players who qualify for multiple countries. Ozil could play for Turkey for example.

Yeah, these guys seem real bummed about it:

So whats the point with these “born and bred americans”? Will they play better soccer because they love their country more? There are several players on the german national team that dont even sing the national anthem, because: “meh” (imagine the shitstorm).

Why is high school such a traumatic social experience for Americans? Most Russians I know don’t look back at it too fondly either but it’s because of lack of personal freedom when you’re at school, not because your class is having a perpetual contest in mutual humiliation. That’s what the media makes American high…

I took some time off...he has done more for American soccer than just about any other player in history..

You have women in your life you love and want to help, but you are more concerned about the dude in your company who got fired for being a sexist pig. How ironic.

Sometimes. I think a sustained general consensus has to emerge over time concerning what the major issues at least, but after that is agreed upon you can gain traction politically.

I posted this above but: obvs extremely woke 12 year olds are a meaningful gain! Like rip on tumblr feminism all you want: but 14 year old girls being able to recognize and speak out about sexism is fucking meaningful as fuck, imo. Even if they’re young and unsophisticated sometimes.

Thiiiiiiisssss. Especially with the purging of the commenters in “the article” debacle this year.

The same Vargas-Cooper that defended the Gawker outing fiasco?

Oh, I don’t mind unleashing and I agree that the writers are human and they have a right to get pissed and annoyed. But there’s unleashing and then there’s banning, which has happened to me 4 times now and I think it’s clear by now that I’m not a troll. And it’s not just me, we all know of several long time commenters…

So the cycle of offense should really be understood as consciousness raising that all movements do?

Point taken about the impossible expectations for how writers have to engage online, but Clover is a straight up mean-girl, bully.

It is important to be constructive in our criticism of society.

This article is really myopic, IMO. Discussion is valuable, and simply discussing these things regularly has changed the course of public discourse. Politics moves slowly by design. You can’t go from unequal pay to paid maternal and paternal leave in one cycle. That’s not realistic. But to discount the value of…

Is Jez a feminist website? Historically, Jezebel has completely and utterly shied away from every calling itself a feminist site. The tagline has always been “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. Without Airbrushing” - it started as “pink Gawker” and while it’s tried to move away from that, the recent structural changes…

Nice non-apology about putting Amy Pascal’s pubic hair on blast. I, too, am sorry that I have failed to anticipate the response my public utterings have had on other people. Kinda sounds like “I’m sorry you were offended”, doesn’t it?

For some people, it’s not about the fact that you wrote it (it’s a compelling story and twitter is public). It’s that you published Jess’ photograph without blacking out her face. Even if it had been all over twitter, she clearly was trying to move on and was uncomfortable having her job as a sex worker public (at…