With international soccer, there's a sense of national pride that warps everything, repurposes it in the hue of national flag, and makes everyone go crazy. Not that we really needed another reason to think we're proud, but now our soccer team doesn't suck, so we can spend an afternoon getting drunk on Bud and thoughts that we're the best.

Junito, I'm sad to say, was born a politician. Or a Manuel Pellegrini. But definitely not a decisive and partisan political talk show host. Conspiracy theorists be damned, Junito is no Glenn Beck. Why am I so sure?

Well, in the Turner household, a raging debate fumes. On the one hand, as a Mexican American, I was raised to love Real Madrid by their association with Hugol Sanchez.

Saw this newspaper headline form way back in 1949. Amazed me that the same vague, ill-informed right wing fear mongering getting used today by the likes of Glenn Beck and all the Tea Party #tcot #gop types on Twitter is just the same crap that was being wheeled out by right wing scaremongers over 60 years ago by Herbert Hoover.