Christ This Sucks
It's a dark day for football after FIFA suspended Folarin Balogun's red card
How Soccer Became a Foreign Game in the United States
In the 1920s, foreign influence, a clash between the pro league, and the Great Depression conspired to drive soccer out of the American mainstream.
The Stadium Food at the World Cup is Dogshit
For this FREE Sick Burns Sunday post, I recount some highlights and lowlights from my impromptu trip to Los Angeles with my 78 year old father where we attended the USA-Turkiye game
It's Just a Pool... And Yet
The Reflecting Pool algae saga seems to be the Trump scandal that finally sticks to Teflon Don. Here's why.
It's The Centrism, Stupid
Centrist American political commentators are mystified that Keir Starmer's time as UK Prime Minister has crashed and burned. He did everything they wanted and everyone hated him anyway.
No newsletter today and probably next week
Hello all! There won't be a Sick Burns Friday post today, mostly because I didn't have anything compelling to say about recent news items. I can feel some burn out creeping in and want to be wary of doing that again, so I have decided to
The List of Trans Allies Grows Thin
And it's only Wednesday...
GUEST: A Crucial Update on the Trans Care Hospital Subpoenas
And how hospitals can be fighting back against the DOJ's attacks We are proud to bring you this guest essay by Williams College professor Chad M. Topaz NYU Langone Health faced a 9 a.m. deadline this morning to answer a federal grand jury subpoena demanding identifying records
The Odd Codpiece Politics of (Some of) the Left
Journalist Ken Klippenstein recently wrote a piece calling typical politicians "smoothgroins," which prompted me to imagine what we would call the opposite: codpiece
The MAGA Circus: GOP's Reality TV Guy Problem
Hello! I made a video today to accompany yesterday's piece. I'd appreciate it if you gave it a watch and subscribed if you're a YouTube watcher.
The GOP's Reality TV Freak Show
A collection of creeps, former reality TV stars, and former athletes now permeate the modern Republican party. But why? In 2010, a reality TV star had a famous on air crashout when he told a friend he was trying to control his anger with dozens of crystals on and around