To The Next Great American Athlete: The Top Ten Reasons You Should Play Soccer Instead of Football/Basketball/Baseball

This is a letter to all the young American athletes out there destined for greatness. To all the future Michael Jordans, LeBron Jameses, Peyton Mannings, Bo Jacksons, Kobe Bryants, and Jerry Rices, I beseech you: consider soccer. There is more money, more fame, less risk, fewer injuries, and more glory in it than any other [...]

The Case Against Canada

It’s not easy to make a case for pressing charges against an organization like the International Olympic Committee, or a human-rights-friendly host country like Canada. But if UNICEF killed a gaggle of Cancun spring-breakers with an errant aerial shipment of Patriots 19-0 t-shirts, we would all be fuming. So why the hell are they getting [...]

The Subversion of Science During the Bush Administration, And Where We Go From Here

If Carl Sagan called science a “Candle in the Dark”, then we have faced eight long years of sunless blackout under George W. Bush. Last week when a federal judge called the FDA’s restriction of Plan B contraception an act of “bad faith” and a “response to political pressure,” it looked as though the eclipse [...]