Lost in the Tubes: Crazy, Crazy Europe Edition

• Time for big words:  ruminations on the relative importance and idiosyncrities of international football, especially the increasing prevelance of naturalized citizens playing for national teams.  Also:  Viva España!  [Washington Post]
• And speaking of the Continent… we all know mullets are all the rage.  A little weird, but whatever.  Chicks still dig Christiano Ronaldo.  Man-purses?  Fine – I carry a lot of stuff, and sometimes a backpack is just too bulky.  But leggings for dudes?  Seriously?  (Note:  I do not, in fact, carry a man-purse.) [New York Magazine]
• Sticking to Europe, we’ve all heard of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider… Right?  Worlds largest particle accelerator?  Anybody?  Okay, so it’s this big thing in Europe that a couple guys think might destroy all existence in the universe as we know it.  Scientists aren’t worried – they flip the switch later this summer.  Personally, I’ll take the side of the scientists.  That way, if I turn out to be wrong, there’s nobody around to say “told you so.”  [Slate]
• Speaking of the end of the world, is anybody else glad that we made it through the month of June?  For a while there, there were enough storms that it seemed like the End Times.  Well, maybe not the Apocalypse, but certainly there were a lot of storms last month.  [Capital Weather Gang]
• At long last, a city realizes that good architecture is more important than “starchitecture.”  Way to be, Beantown!  [Greater Greater Washington]
• And turning to politics, this was supposed to be the campaign where John McCain made sure the discourse was about issues, and not attacks on the opposing candidate.  Apparently John McCain didn’t get the memo.  [The Carpetbagger Report]