Go away, Charlie Stillitano.

Jesus. Only New Yorkers would think the rest of the country gives a shit how you run your subway system. Why the hell should Bernie or any candidate know that? That maybe the stupidest gotcha question I have ever seen.

You mean Eusebio, of course. Ronaldo is good too. Fine, you’re right, USA can’t even really compete with Portugal.

It must be baseball.

In terms of youth sport participation soccer is the 2nd choice in the US after basketball and has been for a decade at least. Even 30 years ago soccer was the number two sport after basketball at my rural American high school, and attracted the best athletes. A lot of the top soccer players top out between 5'8 to 6'1,…

Yes, the USA can compete pretty well with Portugal, a 2nd world economy with a population the size of North Carolina. Woo hoo!

It is true, the bigger problem right now is that the US still doesn’t have any world class players. Certainly no one in the top 100, and maybe not even top 300. The best we have ever managed is a goalkeeper who played for a mid-table premier league side. Who are the hot prospects? Christian Pulisic? For a country that…

Hilary has a demonstrated bad habit of listening to neo-cons and hawkish neo-liberals. I don’t remember Obama’s followers stopping our actions in Libya or the drone war in Pakistan or our incursions in Syria. Bill Clinton bombed Serbia - a few leftists protested but it didn’t hurt him politically. Why should Hilary…

Things never go to shit as much as people think. That is where Susan’s logic fails. Trump will just be a bad President, not a historical disaster. He won’t have the power to do anything all that stupid, because for the most part the country is run by professional Federal bureaucrats, state governments, and Congress.…

There will be no revolution because Trump is a bad manager and won’t get shit done as President. He will be hamstrung from day 1 by his own party disliking him and the fact that the “Deep State” - all the career military, CIA, FBI, NSA, State Department, and other bureaucrats - mostly despise Trump and will actively…

Most of the evidence suggests Clinton would be far more likely to deploy the military than Trump. Trump appears to be an isolationist who would refuse to even honor our military commitments to some of our allies. That is so conservative it crosses over to Chomskyan Leftism. Trump talks a lot of stupid shit but we just…

If you believe his rhetoric, Trump will be better over the short term for the poor and lower middle class- white or black - than Hilary Clinton. Curbing immigration will bring immediate benefits to lower income Americans of all races. Over the long term Trump would probably end up making the American economy less…

“Argentina (last 1986)“ - where were you two years ago?

It’s fine to watch MLS if you live in the US, but I live in Europe and I resent Sport1 US pushing MLS games on TV at times when they could show actual top leagues like the NBA, MLB or NHL. I have no interest in MLS when I can watch the top European leagues. Even Austrian Bundesliga games are higher quality. The…

Was Rob Ford a “bad man”? My impression was that he was a very troubled dysfunctional individual. Completely unqualified to be mayor, sure, but bad? He was certainly no Dick Cheney. Ford probably didn’t lead a very happy life, and he had a protracted and painful death. Far worse men have suffered far less.

It’s a good point. I am not even sure the quality of DW has dropped off that much, but compared to the “golden age” of 2004-8 the competition has stepped up its game.

Maybe it’s just me, but I get the sense that the whole Doctor Who concept is getting a little tired, at least as far as Americans are concerned. My kids used to be huge Doctor Who fans but lately they would much rather watch shows like Daredevil or Jessica Jones (the teenagers) or Flash and Legends of Tomorrow (my…

but he would still work harder than President Trump.

If I discovered Ferrante were really a man, unfortunately it would ruin her books for me. What I love about Ferrante is how she is able to pack so much righteous anger into her novels, but without becoming didactic or losing control of her voice. If it turns out she is a man, none of that anger will seem earned.…

Hey, I am not arguing that Trump should be President. I just think that ignorance and vulgarity are pretty venal sins compared to the outright determination and ability to do evil that Cruz represents. President Trump would still have to operate through a Congress that distrusts him, would have a Cabinet to advise…