I think that is hard to gauge. When I saw the sign in the Indonesian Airport, my first thought was "I am going to keep my distance from drugs on this trip." You are just focusing on the extremes, "the criminals," but it is hard to say how many more people would have chosen a life of crime if there were no penalties.…

Are you arguing that penalties do not have a deterring value?

It's a phrase I use in order to introduce information which I think will be relevant if the discussion will continue. Seeing how we are not in a real courtroom or in a formal interview, I don't think it's that important if I don't use it correctly. (BTW while you're nitpicking my choice of words. Why don't you go…

You don't see any black people posting "he's going to get lynched" if a black individual is about to be fired. Have some dignity!

Here's my two cent theory about Africa:

Last time I checked, a team comprised mostly of MLSers was among the top 16 teams in the World Cup. So the level in MLS can't be too bad. Is it one of the top leagues in the world? Not yet, but they're on the right track. In 2010, only six players were playing in MLS. In 2014 their number went up to 21. We can expect…

Klinsmann's US did okay in the WC.

You underestimate Iceland. Last time they were one game away from making it to the World Cup. A game they lost to Croatia arguably because they were lacking some depth in their roster. Aside from that they had some pretty convincing qualifiers that made it clear that they could easily count themselves as one of the…

It's great that you are excited, although, as you say, things will probably regress to something more familiar eventually.

You do know there is a thing called the Baseball World Classic where the USA constantly keep embarrassing themselves despite fielding a team of MLBers from all over the nation?

...because the USA's pc rules don't apply all over the world.

What apartheid? You do know that there are Palestinians who live and work in Israel? In fact there are even Palestinian Israelis some of which are members of the Knesset. I'm not going to say that they are all thrilled about, but I would definitely not describe their situation using the word Apartheid.

Reread my post. I was saying that even if Israel is doing that, that doesn't justify attacking Israeli or Jewish civilians.

So "an eye for an eye" is still a good way to handle things?

"It must have been a scuffle" [with full on karate kicks]