The US has plenty of goalkeepers in reserve. Ashlyn Harris & Alyssa Naeher are the current backups. NWSL has mostly American GKs and they are all decent keepers.

Drew was right, there really are like a Brazilian of these articles.

The airplane landing “requirement” has been debunked as an urban myth.

My father, Morley B. Christensen, was Chief of Construction and Maintenance for the Bureau of Public Roads, which was first part of the Department of Commerce, then the Department of Transportation. He oversaw most of the construction of the Interstate system until he retired in 1968. I refer to him as the midwife of…

It should be noted that the US highway system really got its start in 1926:

There is interstate highway in Hawaii, but it does not go to another state

If anything, the incredible success of this program is completely ignored by many Americans and most people in the government.

If you’re interested in a detailed history of how the Interstates came about, including the people who had the original ideas and worked decades lobbying to make it happen, as well as a good bit of the politics behind siting some of the metro sections, check the book, The Big Roads, by Earl Swift.

the USWNT has been kicked out of a major international tournament before the semifinal stage

Aw, this whole discussion is giving me flashbacks/douchechills to Rockstar:INXS and whatever the necrophilic band was they found for Season 2.

I saw Marty Stuart not long ago, and he said that today’s country music is just “shitty rock and roll with fiddles.”

Seriously if I have to read one more goddamn article about some idiot coming down here looking for southern “authenticity” and “realness” I’m going to lose my mind. You know why you can’t find it? Because all the authentic southerners have been run out of town by YOU. Like, the south is not some place full of friendly…

You’re a complete douche if you wear both t-shirt and shorts of your college to the gym, right?!? Also what percentage of Duke fans do this, 90%?

Answer to b) Sort of. It’s worth it, though.

Someone had a great quote, I can’t remember who said it: “It’s never the right time to have kids, but it’s always the right time for fucking. God’s not an idiot, he knows how to get shit done.”

Great advice all the way around here. Depending on when you go, sometimes you can score a free meal plan if you are staying on property. The last time we went we stayed at the Polynesian. They were renovating it and the pool was closed so we got a deal and passes to one of the other waterparks. My kids will never stay…

a) Fastpass is pretty much a necessity at any theme park now. I used to go to Six Flags Great Adventure once or twice a summer when I was in college, and it is ABSOLUTELY worth the extra $30 or $40 or whatever it was to be able to skip lines. Holy crap was it worth it

Adam Silver remains the best pro sports commissioner. Not like there’s a lot of competition for that title.

"Why are the Hudson Brothers coming out with a pop song, and why do they sound like chicks?" — Me, high, 1976.

"Why are the Hanson Brothers coming out with a pop song, and why do they sound like chicks?" — Me, high, 1996.