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Thanks to fikshun for passing this on – dear gods, I’m still wiping the tears away….

Well, my initial reaction at seeing Washington getting the #1 seed over Wake was pretty predictable – you have got to be kidding me, right? So I did some snooping, checking some ratings indexes and comparing schedules and so forth, and I have reached two conclusions. First, based on the math, Washington is the right pick. Now, a lot of

A few days ago Oprah did a show on the Peterson case (here and here are a couple relevant snippets). The ostensible purpose of the show was “why did Scott do it?” and the answer, best I can tell, is that “he’s a sociopath.” Glad we could clear that up. However, the show inadvertently raised a deeper question for me.

Today, on Sunday Morning, CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin informed us that Barnard College is in the Ivy League. This no doubt comes as something of a shock to the folks at Barnard, to say nothing of those at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, who for all these decades have been operating under the delusion that

The battle continues to rage over Ward Churchill’s future at the University of Colorado: Regents balk at Churchill deal – Plagiarism allegation stalls buyout proposal… Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking lately on the question of how the hell this ever happened in the first place. As the Denver Post notes in an editorial from this past Tuesday, “Ward Churchill is a

Happy birfday to drdenny!

Dear god. Thanks to Jim Jonas for guaranteeing that I won’t be able to sleep for a week…. EPIC

Being up here in New Yorkansas I guess I’m a tad out of the loop. I knew that State fans had been riding Chris Paul hard prior to his nardbusting episode with Hodge. What I didn’t know until just now what what they had been chanting. “I killed your grandfather. I killed your grandfather.” Ummm, excuse me? Yeah, I know

First, note sirpaulsbuddy‘s great take on the unlikely risk of America becoming a real Christian nation. Now, that “error” that the Grand Inquisitor tells Jesus he committed – does anybody remember what that error was? Score 10 points if you said “free will.” People don’t want free will. Free will is hard work. No, people want easy answers, says he.

Dubya once said he was “a pit bull on the pantleg of opportunity,” which I think is one of the coolest things any president has ever said. What isn’t clear to me is whether the pit bull is supposed to be biting the pantleg or humping it. Either way, I think you can make the case that the statement applies

I’m listening to Warren Zevon’s My Ride’s Here (thx to Pat Vecchio at the Music desk for lending it to me, btw). It occurs to me that no society should be be asked to endure the loss of two such brilliant critics of its culture as Zevon and Hunter Thompson in such a short time. She was a systems analyst

I invented a new word this morning. euphemasia – noun: the act of putting the truth out of its misery by cynically substituting an inoffensive expression for one that is considered offensive or damaging to the personal, political or economic interests of the party using the term. Also, the inverse, cynically substituting an offensive term for a benign one in

Well, this is good news. Students in an investigative journalism class will get to practice their craft on-campus at Rutgers University after all. John Pavlik, chairman of the university’s journalism department, said Tuesday that he was reversing his earlier decision that restricted reporting in the class to off-campus topics. “We’ve decided that the long-term goal of getting the students the

Dr. Jim over at sirpaulsbuddy has three or four good takes posted this morning, including a really distressing story about being evangelized by your non-denom doctor during an office visit and an update on the Clear Channel/China merger….