Don’t fall for the trap of “regions” or AOC designations. Unless you know what years were good for specific regions, you will most certainly overpay for that Burgundy, Bordeaux, or Russian River Valley bottle made in an off year from grapes grown in a marginal vineyard. Know what your bottle price limit is, stick to…

After years of cowering in fear of the “wine thing,” I decided to get smarter about wine. So I bought a discounted wine encyclopedia and started frequenting my local Total Wine. Over a few years, I cycled through various varietals from different regions, a bottle costing no more than $40, but usually between $15-30. I…

So basically, we can attribute our USWNT success to the retrograde and sexist attitude towards organized club women’s sports in Europe. I’m sure it’s even worse in Latin America.

Agreed. But we as a nation don’t care about anything unless we win it all and are #1. We are Trumpian about sports and everything else. So we can’t look at soccer with the longview. We want our team to go out there and be world beaters NOW! Otherwise we don’t GAF. And I’d say that while it doesn’t have to “the…

In contrast to the USMNT, the USWNT is a juggernaut because we actually support women’s sports (relative to everywhere else in the world) and soccer is as good an option as any other sport for girls at an early age. The top European clubs have women’s academy programs, but there’s no real competitive advantage there…

We won’t be fielding even a second-rate team anytime soon because soccer is and will remain a distant 5th or 6th sport in the US. And unlike in most other countries, we have those who harbor an insane politicized moral hatred of soccer (e.g., it’s euro/socialist/communist, etc.), or those who think it’s for “lawn…

You’ve fallen for the trap. Men have failed and continue to fail just as badly, but they’re not scrutinized like the women are because the women were celebrated to the begin with. Who becomes CEO and who fails as CEOs are just normal business news for men, for women they're cultural milestones and so failures are…

Dank and Raw: A Bolton Story

As a former military prosecutor, let me just throw some stars at this comment. This is and remains one of the most critical and challenging aspects of prosecuting sex assaults. Victims in many cases are the only ones who can testify to what happened. But in alcohol intox cases (which is generally the case, purely…

Not likely to see much of that in San Mateo County these days.

Dude, just make the fermentation process happen directly in your gut. Use your intestinal pot still and get the freshest, most unadulterated alcohol in the universe. The cleanest buzz there is.

I’m all for challenging conventional thinking or questioning long-held ossifying assumptions (the “maintenance” of life), but people who want to go all whole hog paleo or medieval forget or ignore the fact that modernity is the result of centuries of progress. There is ALWAYS a trade-off and anyone who sells me a…

best kinja.

I started dipping several years when I was in the Army because it helped keep me awake and because I quit smoking long ago. It definitely helped me get through a long 12 months deployed in Afghanistan. I got out a couple years ago and the habit has been hard to kill. I know the risks (my HS locker room had pictures of…

That may not have been the case back when Gwynn started chewing. Warning labels only became prominent after the war on big tobacco in the 90's. Smokeless was like the last unregulated frontier. Although peer pressure seems to be a huge reason so many ball players got into and still get into chew. The ubiquity of it in…

I always find the British public's interaction with the Royals highly amusing. The Brit players were like, "Hey there posh guy" while the non-Brit players were like "whatevers, another bald white guy who's holding up the game." William striking his usual "casual royal" tone. The monarchy seems very much on borrowed…

You could have just said France.

Seriously. This track was probably built with MWR non-appropriated funds (generated by MWR operations), which is usually the revenue MWR gets from the money spent by SMs and vets on bases. Direct your anger at the unnecessary and unused pork barrel projects that litter desolate corners of states represented by…

That track is probably located in some inconvenient corner of the base that's a pain in the ass for people to get to. I was never stationed there, but the pattern I saw on various Army bases I passed through in my active duty days was that MWR facilities are tucked away in places that you have to seek out with old…

Arsenal is the Cincinnati Bengals of the BPL. They’re good to finish 3-5 in any given year, 2 if things go their way as it did this year. But they won’t get to the summit with an aging Arsene and Kroenke’s stingy and complacent regime. And yet, firing Wenger will only make things worse. Major structural changes will…