Whenever I write about soccer, I inevitably write about loyalty. Now, I know I'm treading on obvious territory: a childhood in Texas and over three years in Pittsburgh have taught me that all sports are territorial and arbitrary allegiance-based battles ...Read More
A man at a bar called me a "dirty spic" this weekend. Earlier this week, I was hanging out with some brown folk and a friend dropped in on us. "Who invited the white girl?" someone asked when my friend C ...Read More
Yesterday, after I spent a good twenty minutes looking up the stats of all the games between the US and Mexico (only to discover it's all on Wikipedia fifteen minutes later --That's what I get for using "primary sources" as ...Read More
What is the record of Mexico vs US the last 5 years? - Tom You have no idea how tedious this was to look up. I ended up at the Federacion Mexican de Futbol Ass. crawling through old stats. Unfortunately, Mexico ...Read More
Hi Adri…. first, I’d like to say hello. If you don’t remember who I am, next time I will try to introduce myself again. Anyway, the question is…. How can I explain to gringos that their national soccer team and ...Read More
From the Rolling Stone Article, "How America Lost the War on Drugs" - The drug war, in the end, has been undone in no small part by the sweeping and inflexible nature of its own metaphor. At the beginning, in the ...Read More
I'm a big fan of TLAs (my old boss at Enron Defense loved saying "TLA" all the time. He'd say something like "EBS and other TLAs." The first day of work I stared at him until he finally explained: Three ...Read More
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