I also think soccer is a lot more technically diverse than baseball. Soccer has so many different ways to arrange your players, so many formations and ways to attack. A baseball manager decides batting orders and when to bunt. He chooses the best player for each position. A soccer manager decides what the positions…

sure, but juxtaposed with the clear inequities of life in the Citadel, with the concurrent plotlines riffing on police violence and corporate greed, it sure seemed like Morty was more Bernie than Hitler.

It sure did seem like the Citadel *deserved* to be toppled, and to turn around and make the progressive hero an…

nah, this was one of the best episodes ever. Writing was superb, and it wasnt really a training day parody in any distracting way. Everything is tropes, including fucking Training Day

This was maybe the best episode ever. Im writing this in between just finishing it, and watching it immediately again

Avoiding his own allegations bothers me mostly because he’s literally promoting his own movie about someone else’s allegations. Being at all aggrieved at Tig is fucking ridiculous, considering he did a movie with Woody Allen, what, 4 years ago?

I get the pragmatism behind it, but that’s all it is. Cynical pragmatism.

I hate when dullards boil sports down to a game of “guts” as much as anyone, but when you’re overmatched, guts is one of the few things that can save you. Grit can save you. I’m hard-pressed to believe this US team can do anything in the WC without those banal qualities. Can they be tactically better, more creative?…

her popularity is at 30%, lower than Sarah palin’s was when she was a candidate.

Hillary is more toxic than ever. You can proudly be in that 30%, sure. Cant take that from you

the democratic party is out of touch. That’s why the republicans own all branches of government despite policies almost no one likes. All Democratic candidates are basically avatars for the less evil, technocratic flavor of corporate rule.
 
But Obama could at least make up the difference with personal charisma. Same…

All qualifications are not equally difficult. You could make the argument however, that the US is gifted a cupcake group and is still struggling to qualify. I’m sure there are some European teams who would love to trade

It’s like when you make the playoffs as an 8th seed in the NBA eastern conference. There’s probably…

no doubt, arbitrary or not, the technical ability in boxing is off the charts. You make a good point about the superfights.

Boxing isnt just losing marketshare in the US because of a lack of American stars though. It’s not Tennis or Golf. There are plenty of US combat sports fans, and fewer are watching boxing than ever.

Watching boxing, there just seems to be so many arbitrary rules. The tactic of tucking and ducking your head directly…

I also dont care for Taylor Swift, but the world where we pretend Beyonce is a genius and also hate Taylor Swift is a pretty stupid world

they’re two versions of the same corporate neoliberal feminism, though I guess Beyonce is maybe 10% more authentic by virtue of occasionally being vaguely transgressive through her…

I got in early because of a mediaite article of all things, and Chapo has basically radicalized me. I now have a subscription to Jacobin. I’ve always have arguments with capitalism, but now I’m reading Capital.

It’s lame for sure, but maybe the last Democratic primary would’ve done this anyway, but I started down the…

All jokes are at someone’s expense. So once you decide that the joke that needles *your* sore spot is too offensive, you’ve likely made yourself a hypocrite for every offensive joke you’ve ever laughed at someone else’s expense. Either everything is ok, or nothing is

Football IQ has nothing to do with actual intelligence. Fitzpatrick is one of the smartest QBs ever and often makes very low-IQ plays.

Football IQ is about staying calm in the moment and processing information quickly. This is done largely through so much practice that the processing becomes autonomic. LeBron James is…

I cried at a superbowl party. I was just a teenager, but it was still humiliating. I haven’t invested myself in a team like that since. That was literally the most painful sports loss of my life, and it doesnt even matter to pats fans

McCain didnt exactly have the Tom Brady-career of professional war pilots

we live in dying empire. Everything just gets worse, all the time.

Ok, as long as you’re not saying single payer is radical. The UK has nationalized healthcare (which is also better than our system). Our cruel, inefficient healthcare market is the anomaly in the developed world, and it’s not because everyone else is radical tankies.

This whole idea that “centrism = being a…

You’re 100% right Hillary didnt lose because of Robby Mook or some tactical mistake. She lost because she was a Democrat. Obama was able to win in 2012 through sheer charisma. No one actually likes Democratic policies, they just don’t want to be killed by Republican ones (which is why they only win nationally after…