She played better in the second half, but the first several crosses and corners were handled terribly. She was hesitating and mistiming all her jumps. The Dutch were lucky not to go down early.

The Dutch goalkeeper looked absolutely atrocious in the first half, and I hope the US can take advantage of that on Sunday

The old one wouldn’t have been able to either. Believe it or not Guatemalans fled the country and came to the US before 1995, and the current problems there are not traceable to the 1995 dissolution and reformation of the police force alone. What the new police force does do better than the old one is commit…

They have a police force, my guy. The question was about dissolving and reforming police forces.

Is it that hard to perceive the difference between relatively harmless playful arrogance deriving from being really goddamn good at a competitive thing and being aggressively shitty, hateful, and harmful? The USWNT might be the former but Trump is the latter.

 what does my ex wife have to do with this? (???)

Guatemala disbanded its national police following the 1995 peace settlement, because they had been complicit in all kinds of human rights abuses over the course of the civil war. The police force that took its place had a lot of the same problems but dismantling the force and rebuilding it did allow for some…

First of all, how dare you. With that out of the way, I’ll concede that Milwaukee does beat Minneapolis at one of the things Minneapolis does better than almost anyone: racial segregation

Kawhi to the Timberwolves! He and Minneapolis are a perfect match: he’s a reclusive weirdo and as cold and distant as any Minnesotan, plus Minneapolis is really nice but boring as hell compared to most big NBA cities.

Potomac Professional Pastime Proprietors part ways with Portis, Parker, Porter. Oubre out! Carmelo captaincy conceivable.

The only way to guarantee a positive outcome from this fiasco

Music is beautiful because some themes are completely timeless. Did Dolan write those lyrics, or is it drawn from Shakespeare? Impossible to say.

As always it’s worth keeping in mind that nonvoters vastly outnumber mythical “moderate Republicans”, and that they skew young and working class. Guess which group Bret Stephens doesn't have a lot in common with and doesn't want the Democrats to try and appeal to

Jokes aside, the doubt that Columbus could make his voyage successfully never had anything to do with the Earth being flat: it was about its circumference. Columbus’ doubters actually knew pretty precisely how big the Earth was, and where Asia more or less was. They just assumed it was nothing but water between…

I want Scott Levert's email tattooed on my back

“If we reduced the speed limit below 50 the number of traffic fatalities would be substantially reduced.”

No shit, the number of foul balls hit in a baseball game is miniscule compared to the number of people who drive to the stadium. Thankfully we take reasonable precautions as a society to keep the number of traffic deaths from getting any higher though. 

Why not simply add a thin line 0.5-1 meters in front of the goal line that the keeper is allowed to move freely behind after the ref blows the whistle for the kick to be taken? Just enshrine what was previously unofficial as the new rule.

One odd thing I’ve noticed is that in the Baltimore Ravens’ logo, the bird has a large “B” on the side of its head, behind the eye (attached image for reference), whereas none of the ravens I’ve ever seen have such a marking, on their head or elsewhere.

Christopher Lloyd Uncle Fester-lookin' ass