Anti-Americanism: Lies, Damned Lies, and the News
There's no excuse for the booing of "O Canada" by San Jose Sharks fans before Sunday's loss to the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of the Western Conference semi-final series. I wish we could locate the jingoistic bastards who booed so that they might be tarred and feathered and left for dead in the wilderness of the Yukon Territory.

But until we can catch them and tar and feather them, what I want to know is this: on Friday, before Game 4 in Edmonton, Oilers fans booed during "The Star-Spangled Banner." Why did ESPN and the Flint Journal only mention this as a sidenote to the story about San Jose fans booing "O Canada"? I read the sports section of the admittedly awful Flint Journal every single day of the week; so, why nothing about the Edmonton booing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Saturday's paper? Or Sunday's? Why did Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption, the former being a subsidiary of the latter, not even mention the booing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during their coverage of the "O Canada" booing? Why wasn't the despicable Canadian booing of the American national anthem given equal time with the despicable American booing of the Canadian national anthem?

Because reporters hates America, that's why. Probably not, actually, but it would certainly explain the lackadaisical attitude of the American press toward the abuse of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

What the Fuck?
Also, seriously, what the fuck is going on in Brazil? WTF? The largest city in Brazil is being overrun by criminal gangs? Not political rebels, but a criminal gang? This is like something out of a movie. Specifically an '80s action movie set in a fictional dystopian 1990s, like RoboCop or Escape From New York.