Go, team, go

Haha. One of my conservative childhood friends just posted that our old high school team is playing the school his kids go to now, so he doesn't know who to root for.

So I told him Chomsky says that team sports are just a ritual meant to induct kids into jingoistic tribalist cultural mores so later in life they will support the ruling elite's use of the military to consolidate power.

We'll see what he thinks of that.

[UPDATE, 2/4/2014: My comment was ignored.]