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Two more thoughts: 1) If I had to eliminate rooting for any country whose history included some form of racial discrimination, for whom would I root? 2) Colbert: "Brazil defeats North Korea in the World Cup. I guess we know who they're nuking first!"

Again, I am allowed to root for or against a country based on that country's politics if I choose to, and I do. I do not feel the inclination to justify it to you. I am not sure how you can boldly declare my stance "wrong". You may disagree, and you are entitled, but geez. Like I said, I admired the way the North Koreans played today and I have nothing against them. Hell, I bet there's many of them who would like to leave NK if they could. I want them to lose because of what their government stand for. Take it or leave it.

I have no love for Italy or Argentina, but if I was alive in 1936, I would have rooted against the Germans in favor of Jesse Owens. A country's politics do factor into who I root for. Having said that, NK played great in the first half and seemed to gain a lot of respect from the Brazilians. If it had continued in the 2nd half, I may have had a Rocky IV moment and ended up rooting for the underdogs just like the Russians rooted for Balboa.

I seriously hope Brazil puts double digits up on North Korea.

Yes, are you suggesting a name swap?

One of my kids' (5 year old twins) favorites. Sometimes we sing rock and roll preschool.

US looks completely amateur out there right now.

Iggy Pop - Metro, 1988 - Stage dove right on top of me. I thought I might die. I didn't.

That SA breakaway in the 90th minute that went off the post was a heartbreaker.

a-man, you didn't watch 24, did you? Some badass Russians in the last season. I think the pretty much laid of the Chinese, though. Mostly focused on Russians, Middle Easterners, white supremacists, and drug lords.

Here's the problem in this conflict. The oppression of the Palestinians is directly connected to a history of violent attacks against the Israeli people. The Palestinians of Gaza elected Hamas who has called for the destruction of Israel. Without the violence, the Israelis no longer have a justification for the oppression and many more of their own citizens -- not withstanding international pressure -- wouldn't stand for it.

LouieB is dead right about non-violent resistance. I had a long discussion about this issue several years ago. He was much less sympathetic to Israel than I am, but we both agreed that Israel could NOT nor would WANT to handle the international pressure that would come upon them if they continued to oppress the Palestinians for, say 3 years, with only non-violence in return. It still wouldn't settle all the tricky land disputes, but it would force Israel into much more serious negotiations.

I think that while this lineup is more "sophisticated" they can rock as hard as the BT era Wilco, just in a different way. Maybe more mature (without knocking the guys from the BT lineup, they were younger).

I agree that it was in bad taste, but I also think it's much ado about little.

Yes, it is, but I'd love to hear an argument that more than any 4 songs at that are worthwhile.

Not having seen the other 26 outs, if they were all good calls, they need to re-write the rulebook retroactively and overturn this. Wow. Just WOW!

Yeah, you're right. Everlong doesn't rock.

What'd you think. This movie completely passed my radar. I love Office Space and Idiocracy, but just read some pretty dismal reviews.

Wrong thread. This belongs in the Mediocre LPs with crappy openers thread.

I love the Spoon vocals.

Agreed. Cheesy, but entertaining. Keifer Sutherland just getting primed for his Jack Bauer days.

angry sex

This guy is still alive, right?

Built to Spill. Love the music, can't stand Martsch's voice. I still listen sometimes, but it's hard for me to get past. Also, to a lesser extent, The Hold Steady.