Watching the end of this Scotland game is reminding me of the story my (Scottish descended) grandfather told me about our ancestors. Apparently they were competing for some land in Scotland in the Olden Days. Rules were, row across this lake—whoever got their hand on the opposite shore first, won.

Good Lord—the Australians have now taken down a ref?! What is this game.

Privatizing the beach is an abomination unto our Lord. (As someone who grew up on the Va coast).

OMG IT HAPPENED. who had today in the pool.

Again, I am but an American, but I am pretty sure putting people in headlocks is against the rules of soccer. Or, as the Telemundo guys said, “Australian rules football”

VAR said "it's Juneteenth. Let Freeman ring."

I know a scant amount about the offsides rule, being American, but basically it means you can’t score unless at least one defender is between you and the goal on a horizontal. (So no fast breaks, à la basketball.)

That was nuts. And my new buddies the Telemundo commentators also think so.

DELAYED GOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL

Quick shot of Alex Morgan and Jill Ellis of USWNT and commentators happy to mention them.

Ok, I thought I was misunderstanding something, but evidently we do have a USMNT player nicknamed Jedi, and that is what the commentators call him. (Govt name is Antonee Robinson.)

WARN ME BEFORE YOU CUT TO RFK. good lord. (The Telemundo commentators make no mention of him.)

Oy! Stop kicking Tyler Adams! What is wrong with you!!

The Telemundo announcers are also v excited about this game. And I have absorbed enough Spanish to learn via hearing that Christian Pusilic wasn’t starting. Progress!

It is so strange to see the US Men playing almost as well as the women.

You can get the shots at Walgreens or CVS. Just stroll on in and prevent cancer!

I think the culture around the World Cup has felt so healing because it has felt at times like this country has forgotten how not to be a morass of despair and cynicism. Watching other folks encounter what is fun about us, and revel in it has felt revelatory.

These myths about the former republic south of Canada, according to the latest authoritative research, are attempts to explain how the Darker Age descended on a previous world power.

“the Shias, folks, they had the right idea. You gotta keep it in the family. Even if your family isn’t that great, but they’re family, what can you do? My son-in-law, he’s not so great, but Ali, there’s a great son-in-law. So we won’t be recognizing the caliphate of Abu Bakr, will we folks?”

Experimented today w watching Fox Sports World Cup coverage. No thank you. I do want to see how long it takes Zlatan and Tierry Henri to start screaming at Alexei Lalas (I give them one more day…maybe.) But I don’t want to see constant ads for Fox News political content. Telemundo, I’m coming home.

If your theology of embodiment is affected by the indignities and pains of aging, it wasn’t a theology to begin with, it was just aesthetics. This post brought to you by “I ended up with a crown due to a Wawa pretzel.”

AI is the ultimate mansplainer. Great. GREAT.

“I can’t come to work today. Says so in the Iran peace deal.”

This whole Strait of Hormuz situation has opened up bold new possibilities for Connecticut’s control of the Long Island Sound.

Hi! Don't make me tap the "This is Marcionism" sign! ⚓

Did…did Lukaku just get bored on the bench and say “eh, let me go score a goal” then do it?!? He was on the pitch like 10 sec!!

I am enjoying this match where it seems Belgium forgot how to play soccer.

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Excited to that my Eldest Kid was taught to expertly clack open his rainbow fan today at the Pride parade. We’re still working on the elegant fluttering, but there’s time. I told him we’ll practice to recordings of Jellicle Ball from the Tonys. The children must LEARN.

Husband and I getting into the spirit of this. “Vamanos, Brian!”

Why is this Mexican player wearing an eyepatch over his temple? Is he confused? Is this a stylish new headband I am unaware of?

GOOOOOOOO…….etc Mexico!

Mexico just setting up shop in SA’s half of the fields. They live here now.

We are watching this match on Telemundo, on Peacock, bc the algorithm really truly believes I speak Spanish, despite watching no Spanish language TV.

YES. México can do some solid Yelling of An Anthem!!!

I love the World Cup so much. Not so much the sportsball, but the humanity of all variety that is unleashed in the same direction. Behold all the folks from Nigeria, Ghana and other parts of Africa declaring a sudden and profound love of Mexico in advance of today’s game against South Africa!

The idea of reviving Cats (an inherently nonsense musical) as a ballroom vogue-off is sheer genius and the people who made it should continue to work their magic forever. PLEASE DO STARLIGHT EXPRESS NEXT.

And the shirts say “This is not a jersey” on the back:

And this is hardly the most important thing, but they keep eating bread with sliced black olives stuck on the top?! And WHAT EVEN IS THAT!!!! WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?!!

Meanwhile, Jonathan has appeared, but have he and David fallen in mad passionate love yet? They have not.

Dude, the Philistine king is visibly wearing purple eyeshadow and his horse has matching ponytails to his. This is some 1980s Disney homophobic villain coding stuff.

Watching the new David animated movie on Netflix. I have many questions about this. We have some appearing/disappearing accents. Inexplicably, setting the village on top of a hill instead of in a valley (I could get extremely conspiratorial about this one).

Dude. Wrong side. YOURE ON THE WRONG SIDE.

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What is the best cartoon theme song and why is it Darkwing Duck?

Just...wow. Stand every one of those church leaders on a chair, reading aloud from On Repentance and Repair by @theradr.bsky.social, for as long as it takes.

Just dawned on the kid that Eddie Murphy was the voice of Donkey in Shrek and he is AMAZED.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my involvement in the child welfare system and legal systems of this country it’s that we profoundly do not care about children or their welfare in any meaningful way, despite all our sloganeering

I should not have to know this much about any man from Maine