This may already have been mentioned in the sea of grays, but the quality of "The Big Mazungo" at the runningmovies.com link is horrible; youtube has a much better version at:

I wonder if Messi knows about his Scottish admirer.

Cote d’Ivoire definitely look terrible, but Germany also played very well here. Technically, their touches in the final third are just perfect. Seeing them here has me worried for the (presumably...hopefully?) inevitable US-Germany game...

Honestly, I think the Aussie description here is accurate regarding the *first* half. But we outplayed them handily in the second. And I agree that we looked uninspired offensively, even into the opening of the second, relying on long balls over and over. But both of the second-half goals were well-played, greatly…

Well said. This focus on the base rate and statistical probabilities reveals a strange epistemological framework.

I imagine that the base rate percentage of people who can walk up a flight of stairs is easily over 99%. But if someone rolls up to a building in a wheelchair and asks where the ramp is, and someone…

Southpaw: while it's true the NCR isn't an official journalistic organ of the Roman Catholic church hierarchy itself, it is very much a Catholic newspaper, run by believing Catholics. So while your Catholic RW friends might dismiss it because this position hasn't come down from the Pontiff himself, this position…