Learning Spanish is a fun endeavor, in part because I’ve discovered such items as the following while enjoying its namesake. This term, which means “beer” in Spanish, originally came from the medieval French word cervoise. For its part, the French term origianlly stemmed from the Gallo-Roman (that is, ancient French-Latin dialect) word cerevisia, which was [...]
To quote Henry Miller, what makes money make money? It’s not precision, although calculation is certainly involved. Aside from Grant’s zinger at the end — note the interviewer’s shocked expression — I’ll turn back to football (soccer), you know, that game in which you play the ball with your feet, and show the best goal [...]
is all the space(time) required. Look at Germany’s third goal here. (ESPN has requested that the video not be embeddable, yet you can watch it on YouTube…). Had Lugano jumped up to defend with his head, rather than clumsily trying to use his leg to kick the ball away, would Khedira have scored? Soccer, or [...]