Can anyone figure out how to filter by state? Or are they purposefully making it difficult to redeem tickets?

She did not beat Phelps... She got faster on the last 50m of a 400m race than the men, who at the time the winner was Ryan Lochte (28.93 vs 29.10). Over the whole race, she was still 26 sec slower than the men. (4:31.73 vs 4:05.18)

Pretty sure that no one was on your lawn, sir.

None of the Scandinavian countries are socialist. They are social democracies with a capitalist economy. The means of production are still largely owned by private citizens. The welfare state is generous, but that does make it a socialist economy.

Again - those are public services. Provision of public services does not equate to socialism.

That is not socialism. It is a list of public services. The two are not synonymous.

You answered your own question on the problem with Venezuela. Hint. It wasn’t the socialism. I’ll help.

It’s not like you can’t point to the fact that Chavez instituted a corrupt system of building up his supporters and jailing his opponents - which happens to be the mark not of socialism, but authoritarianism (and plain old corruption).

There is one rational argument for why the U.S. could win, or at least maximize its chances. Argentina only has two days between their QF and the SF. The U.S. should try to cling in the 1st half without conceding, let Argentina do the hard work in the first half, and it’s possible that Argentina will be dead toward…

Great win by the US. There was actually a good long stretch where the US held possession and when they attacked, really had some flair. I especially remember a nice sequence of one touch passes on the left side. Refreshing to see.

Great move by Wood to turn outside instead of forcing something against the set defense. That one touch cross from Jones was really pretty, on a line and just the right height, and that Dempsey finish - he jumped so high he had to duck a little to get his head on it! Smart, composed play in the last third from USMNT.

Don’t worry guys, football season is coming up soon!

Adam LaRoche would like to have a word with you.

It’s weird; for me, that first trailer got me excited for a Call of Duty game for the first time since, I dunno, ever. I love sci-fi, and I’d just finished rereading the first few Honor Harrington novels, so I was primed to be excited for any kind of space opera game, especially one with as solid a foundation as CoD’s…

“The people promoting this game keep saying “boots on the ground,” likely to assuage the fans freaking out about Call of Duty turning into a space game.”

Muhammad Wilkerson is extremely fed up with the Jets.

Instead of the draft, I wonder what the politicians and voting public would think about a national service program, similar to the various countries around the world? National service for two years, for everyone regardless of socio-economics, race, creed or sexual orientation. To work locally and beyond on federal…

I’ll just leave this here!

I mean look at the difference in numbers per 100,000 people. Can you explain that?

Croatia and their checkered past