America has left the World Cup. Now who do we cheer for? For many, England is the fallback. Sports journalist Zach Dundas—author of the new book The Renegade Sportsman—explores the singular neuroses of an American rooting for England.

[Anthony Le, dressed as War Machine, rides an escalator outside E3, the video game industry's biggest trade show. He didn't have a pass, but drove 20 hours to be there "in the spirit of video games." Pic via AP.]

America doesn't suck at soccer! A technically outmatched U.S. team tied England 1-1 today amidst the droning vuvuzelas, thanks to a fluke mishandling of Clint Dempsey's shot by English goalkeeper Robert Green. Ha ha. Next match: Against Slovenia this Friday.

A new report called the Global Peace Index says that America is one big, violent place. So what exactly is taken into account when deciding which countries are the most peaceful, and where does America stand? Let's take a look.

A TripAdvisor survey found that Britons, followed by Germans and stinking Americans, are the biggest fashion offenders when visiting Europe. 36 percent of Britons polled said they dress "more adventurously" while on holiday. Italians are the best dressed. [Telegraph, pic]

According to a new BBC poll, the entire world does not hate America anymore. We're still not back to the 1980s "I'll trade you my Yugo for a pair of American blue jeans" level, but it's still nice!

Jerry Schweighart, the Mayor of Champaign, a city of 75,000 people, was asked what he thinks of Barack Obama. The President of the United States of America. "I don't think he's American, personally," he responded.

[Here's a wonderful chart, Unboxing the iPad Data by John Kumahara and Johnathan Bonnell, showing that iPads are being sold mainly in urban areas. You should have gone to the Apple store in Omaha. No lines! [via]

A Michigan man will soon be tried for bio-terrorism because he is HIV-positive, and he bit his neighbor. He has been charged with "use of a harmful biological device." The device is him!

Republican Virginia Governor who won election by posing as a reasonable moderate declares "Confederate History Month." Every reasonable person in the nation offended. Your American Spectator headline: "Leftist Race Baiting in Virginia."

Justin Bieber (#Justin #Bieber #JustinBieber) has forgiven the president of the United States for mispronouncing his name. The conciliatory statement should stave off a Wild In the Streets sort of situation... for now.

Happy Census Day! The government hopes you've already sent in your 2010 census form. (Census Day should've been before the due date though, right?) Even the president had to. But some people are scared of getting counted by the government.

First LL Cool J wanted out. Now country singer Toby Keith is upset about being on Palin's new show, Real American Stories. With one out of three "marquee" guests already gone, will the Oklahoma crooner jump ship, too?

The Minutemen are getting back together! (Not the band. Sorry.) The border-guarding, gun-toting vigilantes are heading to Arizona with rifles to "defend" America. Just in time for Congress to take on immigration reform. What could possibly go completely crazy?

Maryland—a Union state and a slave state—is attempting to secede from the South.

Important national security news: anthropomorphic representation of post-collapse America's spiritual bankruptcy Spencer Pratt is going to start a "cybersecurity venture," FoxNews.com can confirm.

Love America's beautiful national parks, but hate that you can't bring your gun into them? Starting Monday, you may bring firearms into national parks. Says the founder of opencarry.org: "Now it's a big sea of gun freedom." U-S-A! U-S-A! [LAT]

We just finished the last quarter (or whatever it's called) of the USA/Canada hockey game. We won! But all anyone could talk about was how pissed they were that the game was shown on MSNBC and not NBC. So what?

Did the Founding Fathers intend for America to be a Christian nation? No.

This is a very popular map right now among the wonky liberal bloggers of the grown-up end of the internet. It is designed to make the electoral college and the Senate more "democratic." Which defeats the point of those institutions!