A Knife, a Train, and the World’s Collateral Boredom International dispatch – Dave’s Locker, somewhere between Kyiv and Vienna The 18:42 to Vienna is usually a rolling monument to European efficiency: Wi-Fi that works just well enough to remind you your life is slipping by in 280-character increments, and dining-car schnitzel priced like a ransom…
Croatia vs. Montenegro: A Balkan Derby the World Pretends to Care About—Until It Doesn’t By Dave’s Locker International Desk The Adriatic has always been a stage for grand entrances and hasty exits. On Tuesday night, the curtain rose once more as Croatia and Montenegro squared off in a “friendly” that felt anything but—unless your definition…
In a smallish corner of Foxborough, Massachusetts, 65,000 people are presently losing their minds over a leather prolate spheroid. The rest of the planet, meanwhile, is busy losing its mind over everything else—meteorological tantrums, sovereign-debt cliffhangers, and the latest celebrity-sponsored crypto rug-pull—yet somehow still finds bandwidth to rubberneck at the Patriots game today. Why? Because…
West Virginia vs Ohio: A Micro-Brawl with Macro-Implications By Our Man in the Rust Belt, filing from a motel whose Wi-Fi password is still “Covid2020!” When the words “West Virginia” and “Ohio” appear in the same sentence, most non-Americans picture banjo music, abandoned steel plants, and a faint smell of coal dust mingling with vape…
