The Best of Reason: Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?
The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.

This week's featured article is "Can Ultimate Frisbee Heal the Middle East?" by Jack Pearson and Matthew Petti.
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If this is the “best of reason” maybe you guys should find another career.
This is worthy of the East of the 405, south of the 210 journolisming awards, I must say.
Can I get some of what you're ingesting? That's some Owsley-level hallucination going on there.
If this is your best, you should quit.
I suspect Ultimate Frisbee will be considerably less effective in world-changing impact than the $100 laptop was.
So the short answer is NO.
The long answer is that I'm considering cancelling my subscription, if this is the type of thoughtless bullshit content I can expect.
Let's use some intramural US college sportsball to bring lasting peace to the middle east? Are you serious? Does that sound like 'Reason' as a suggestion? Does it appear to you to be actually serious? Go Away. Let's get some adults in the room.
There is no palestine, Pearson and Petti. Get out a fucking map.
They were all pretty peaceful before soccer ruined them
Didn't listen. Is the content as brain-dead as the headline?