I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, I was just trying to parse out the specific points of contention between separatists and the rest of the country, and I asked about immigration because my sense is that there’s already a lot of it in Catalonia. Anyway BorisYeltsined answered me.

This is something I haven’t quite been able to figure out myself. Historically, Catalonia is far to the left of the rest of the country, and is certainly more prosperous. It’s been a few years since I’ve been there but I always got the sense Barcelona has a pretty high immigrant population as well. So I can plainly…

They need to cut back on their use of technology to get every call absolutely right, because it's just going to escalate with more and more advanced cameras. Make it so replay review can only show plays at full speed -- if repeated looks at game speed can't overturn a call, the call is probably good enough to uphold

“Given the absence of video footage and reports from journalists and fan accounts from inside, the soccer world will have to take their word on it.”

That pass was blinder than a Hong Kong protestor shot in the eyes by the Chinese government.

I think she’s saying “I’d feel awful if something similar happened to my son”, not that her son's participation in band is actually at stake. She's still avoiding consideration of the actual rules and consequences for breaking them, though 

North Haverbrook

Extremely weird final two sentences there my friend.

Or we'd like to benefit from technological advances without the whole enterprise being entirely driven by advertising and data prospecting

Turn off location services and clear your travel history. Android will get mad at you but the peace of mind is worth it. 

I think the implosion may have started three weeks ago

I didn’t know there was a Junior and legitimately thought Vinny Sr. was mounting a comeback for a minute there.

The Russian role in defeating the Nazis in WWII is criminally underrecognized in the West but Britain did kick the shit out of them in the Battle of Britain. Everybody ought to be welcome to the “reminding Nazis that we can and will beat the shit out of them” party.

“hitting Thielen for 130 yards and two scores in a Week 5 win over Atlanta.”

A coworker of mine is from LA and is a fan of all team sports with very few specific loyalties other than to the Dodgers. After the Dodgers, Rams, and Chargers all lost this week I texted him something like "Rough week for LA teams" and he responded with "Yeah I was really disappointed by the Dodgers, and the Rams…

Of course, I suppose my point comes down to whether Yuan Fang is stupid and doesn’t realize most American schools teach students embarrassingly little about China, or just cynical and attempting to do the American Right persecution complex thing.

It’s straight out every anti-intellectual American conservative’s playbook - if every member of the population doesn’t emerge from the educational system believing every little detail of every national myth we regard as important, it must be that all the teachers have schemed to collectively corrupt all the children’s…

The new color rush uniforms are weird

He sucked ass and was bad

Hey he's only human, hubba hubba