You’re watching a soccer game: It’s USA versus Germany, World Cup knockout round. It’s early in the match, about 13 or so minutes in, and Germany are awarded a corner kick. Pretty normal stuff. Well, there’s some tussling and janking around in the box, a pretty normal big mess. But the referee blows his whistle—normal enough, and then the stadium announces that VAR is going to take a look. VAR, or Video Assistant Referee, is the name of a technology and procedure for looking at contested calls on the field. In a box, several referees look over...
Continue reading...July 2025
RCV when
Well thank goodness DC may have ranked choice voting in 2026 because this is absurd. Expelled former DC council member Trayon White wins his seat back despite 70.55% of the albeit small electorate voting against him (probably on account of the crimes). You may think being a criminal would be a problem for people running for election, but that’s just not the case anymore, if it ever was. I mean at least he’s not an adjudicated sexual abuser who was found guilty of a ton of felonies and is no longer allowed to run a foundation in...
Continue reading...Trump take trophy
From the annals of You Can’t Make This Shit Up: President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won’t be getting the original trophy, because he’s keeping it. English club Chelsea easily dispatched France’s Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the tournament in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sunday, with Trump joining the players for the trophy lift—much to their confusion. It has since been revealed that the intricate prize hoisted aloft by the London club’s captain, Reece James, was a replica because the president of football’s governing body, FIFA, has let Trump use...
Continue reading...On the media (not the NPR show)
We all have our issues with the news media. There are just too many to name, count, or even describe generally. It’s a mess out there, whether it’s corporate power, two-siding every issue, hell, even just describing facts. So, I will limit this post to just one issue: I am simply begging the news media to stop covering voters and start covering elected officials. Barely a day goes by without some story popping around where either a Trump voter says why they voted for Trump (you know, to educate the libs), or somebody who is very hurt...
Continue reading...Making America More and Less American, for 249 years.
I’ve always felt lucky to be an American, and still very much do. It’s harder this July 4th though, to be proud when our rights and notion of equality are intentionally violated. So called “police,” acting at the direction of our government without warrants, just arresting people on vibes, including U.S. Citizens like Adrian Martinez, Andrea Velez, Jose Hermosillo, Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, Jensy Machado. Doesn’t matter if you show ID, either due to their incompetence or arrogance, you can be put in jail with no lawyer. Last week a group of men in masks, street clothes, tactical...
Continue reading...It’s what they always wanted
The Big Beautiful Bankrupt Barbaric Baffling Bullshit Bill: What the hell else is there to say about it that hasn’t already been said millions of times all over the print and online media. Let’s recap: So why the hell are these people trying so hard to pass a bill that sucks ass and will basically mean their eviction from office? You’d probably answer with something like “fealty to Trump” or “afraid of losing the primary” and I guess there’s a certain way you would be correct. But, that’s not the primary reason. The primary reason is: Because...
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