I want to applaud the Carolina fans on for the grace with which they are dealing with last night’s defeat. One Carolina fan I correspond with has continued nonstop with the stream of excusemongering he began early yesterday – literally hours before the game even started. So far he has blamed just about everybody short of the Trilateral Commission for the defeat, and if he gets much worse Dan Brown will have no choice but to write a novel about it.

As I said to sirpaulsbuddy, an avowed Duke fan, e-mailing with this guy is like having my cable company add The Whiner Channel to the basic package….