No. Certainly not at a domestic event. I would have to fact check this, but I would not be surprised if we are the only country that plays our own anthem at our own events with no other country present.

Agreed. When I think of racial injustice and serious commentary on the state of the nation, the first thing that comes to mind is: But what do the hot 20-something year old blondes who more than likely got everything in life handed to them think?

The Blaze is the “media network” that Glenn Beck started when Fox shitcanned him. Essentially this woman works for Glenn Beck.

“How dare you sit there and blame white people for the problems of the minority communities. After all, aren’t you half white? Didn’t two white parents adopt you, after yours weren’t willing to raise you?!”

Because when you want hard-hitting perspective about how the world really works, you go to a 24 year old blond who's putting together an audition reel for a sweet FoxNews gig.

GenX will be better by our standards, I guess. But by the time they take over, there will be a whole new crop of youngsters to complain about old people. “My dad refuses to watch a live-stream of my prostate exam, he’s such a prude.”

As a middle-aged Gen-Xer myself, I largely agree with you. Granted, there are still a bunch of regressive asshats in my age group, bt I like to think we’re better at not being shitty human beings than my parents and grandparent’s generations.

What a fucking reductionist argument: unless you are being actively oppressed, you can not complain about oppression. I’m as white as white gets and I have the right and obligation to protest when I see injustice, even when that injustice is directed against others. Finebaum’s logic is why the Nazi’s got away with the…

The older I get, the more I realize that things are fucked up because older people are allowed to be in charge and have a say in things. Hearing Finebaum say this is about as surprising to me as hearing someone’s grandma wax poetic about when everything was still segregated.

The fact that this shitface has a job doing what he does is proof that white people get an unfair advantage in this country.

you forgot the comma and spelled my name wrong

Maybe if those kids got jobs they wouldn’t be so poor.

As a college professor I can only speak from my experience and here it is: trigger warnings are used by students mainly as a way of getting out of work or for not having to read literature that they don’t want to. In legit cases (such as a veteran fresh from Afghanistan who didn’t want to watch a segment of Band of…

oh, millenials are going to "fix" things. can't wait for that.

It’s amazing how the biggest sport in the planet needs to change so as to attract americans who are clueless about it. Everybody else must get fucked apparently.

This is just a bunch of sour grapes by some people that can’t stand US not winning, for once. Would they have bitched about “boring tactics” if the US team would have won a gold using the same strategy? Of course not...

So Sweden should have considered the long term impact a Quarterfinal game in the Olympics would have on the game of soccer in determining their tactics against a superior opponent?

Sweden was cowardly for playing a tactic that got them a victory? Are these the unwritten rules of football?

What is it with you, Hope Solo, and this “cowardly” stuff?

So, a bribe.