I also like how there are repeated, elbow-in-the-ribs references to how Stalin was worried about assassination (e.g., bullet-proof couch! 2-foot thick walls! no carpets on the floor so he could hear who was approaching!) without any mention, not even briefly, of why he was so worried about trying to be killed.

They did…

Think what you will about Pol Pot, but the man was ahead of his time when it comes to getting away from it all and moving to the country...

“The walls had no pictures, because Stalin hated them. The eyes in pictures reminded him of the nearly one million Russian people he had executed. There were also no rugs or carpets, as they reminded Stalin of the fields that went bare when he executed all of the kulaks, which resulted in the famine that killed…

I mean, *I* sure as shit wouldn’t go into Putin's Russia and shit-talk Josef Stalin.

If this was his vacation home, imagine the types of atrocities you could overlook during a tour of his primary residence. 

STICK TO SPORTS!

Guess which team is about to ride the Polonium Express?

And this has been your Dennis Green World Cup Update.

Dear Post Editorial Board:

+1 Bicycle Kick.

Damn, SVD out here throwing shadeonfraud.

Really enjoying Lauren’s coverage of what has been a really fun, exciting World Cup!

Guess you haven’t seen her picture.

This is chief among the reasons why I refuse to run.

Fuck the Serbs. We both know they find the double headed eagle offensive because either they dislike the reminder of their genocidal past or they are still a bunch of nationalist, racist, fascist pricks who deserve the whole world to look at them with contempt. Again, fuck the Serbs.

In the 1990s Arkan, owner of Red Star Belgrade and a Serbian celebrity/military commander, used the Red Star Ultras supporter group as a sort of militia to perform ethnic cleansing. But soccer isn’t political at all tho

Another one of my favorite gestures to hostile fans: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Kozakiewicz#Olympic_gold_and_Kozakiewicz’s_gesture

Thanks for Xplaining what was going on. 

Wow. That’s some heavy shit. I wish I’d known about this before the match. When Shaqiri scored and stripped his jersey off, I thought only of the announcers I’d heard during Stoke matches giving him stick for being a selfish player. This explains a HELL of a lot. Responding to fans who are mocking you with t-shirts of…

The real heroes are on the internet questioning the toughness of the players.