The Perils of Tagging

30Mar10

I made the rather silly decision, in retrospect to include the tag “sex clubs” in the Hypocrisy post. Next thing I know, I have a comment asking who David Vitter is. I thought, hmm, “I wonder who this person is?”  Well, I clicked on the link to her site, and it turns out, she runs […]

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Suicide, Soccer, and the Need to Belong

30Mar10

I finished up with Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanki about a week ago. Overall, I enjoyed it; it’s an easy read that can appeal to both seasoned soccer fans and novices. It features a good takedown of the English ideology on tactics, a thorough study of successes in the transfer market, and ranking […]

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Tags: belonging, Football, Hunter S. Thompson, Princess Diana, September 11, Simon Kuper, soccer, soccernmoic, sociology, Stefan Szymanski, suicide