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by John Cole|  March 16, 20108:41 am| 27 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Bootlegger

    March 16, 2010 at 8:44 am

    You have until noon Thursday to stake your claim to Madness. Don’t forget the “seed bonuses” when you make your picks. You’ll need the group ID# in the group label below.

    BALLOON JUICE GROUP ID# 61659
    “Consistently Wrong Since 2002”

  2. 2.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 16, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Whee! Apparently, Raj Patel is the Messiah and Bo-Bo is a douche. My Tuesday is starting off so well!

  3. 3.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 16, 2010 at 8:45 am

    I have had at it. And have had it.

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    March 16, 2010 at 8:51 am

    I’ve heard the soft coo-oo-oo of the mourning dove all of my life, but until yesterday I didn’t know that they were like frogs.

  5. 5.

    BenA

    March 16, 2010 at 8:52 am

    And it begins the “powers” that be block all sports sites during the NCAA tournament… because they had a network hickup four or five years ago that happened to occur during the NCAA tournament. Rather than actually take responsibility and fix the network they blamed the NCAA tournament.

    I love people that are incapable of doing their job, so they make life worse for everyone else.

    Not like it matters since UConn decided to end the season with losses to USF and St. John’s (ST JOHNS!)

    Gooo NIT!

  6. 6.

    beltane

    March 16, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Spotted a flock of Canada geese flying back north yesterday. They usually don’t make it up here until mid-April. Other migrating birds have been returning early, too. I suppose they’re participating in some kind of hoax.

    Oh, and Jane Hamsher has dug in on her Kill the Bill position. Why won’t she give up her insurance to show solidarity with the 33 million she feels are better left uninsured.

  7. 7.

    Chat Noir

    March 16, 2010 at 8:56 am

    Saw the first robin of the season yesterday while walking the Wheaten Terror. And it’s sunny today!

    The HCR bill is causing me major anxiety.

  8. 8.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2010 at 8:56 am

    Don’t WANNA have at it, and you can’t make me!

    Need moar coffee.

  9. 9.

    LuciaMia

    March 16, 2010 at 8:57 am

    Sun!! The sun is actually shining today! For the past four days, northern NJ has been like living on Noah’s ark. Let the flood waters recede!

  10. 10.

    Cat Lady

    March 16, 2010 at 8:57 am

    You know what? When your number’s up, your number’s up.

  11. 11.

    BenA

    March 16, 2010 at 8:59 am

    @Cat Lady:
    That’s why I don’t jog. ;-)

  12. 12.

    Cat Lady

    March 16, 2010 at 9:00 am

    @BenA:

    Heh. That’s why I don’t have an iPod.

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    March 16, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Chat Noir: Beat ya by a day or two.

  14. 14.

    Chat Noir

    March 16, 2010 at 9:09 am

    @jeffreyw: Hurrah for robins! We were in St. Louis a couple weeks ago and I saw a few there. However, St. Louis is about a month ahead of SE lower Michigan where spring is concerned.

  15. 15.

    PTirebiter

    March 16, 2010 at 9:10 am

    Has anyone else heard the radio sound bite of Clarence Thomas’s wife this morning? Has she always affected the Palin-esque speaking style so favored by real America?
    I’d never heard her speak before and It was pretty damn disturbing. Not to mention she actually embraces Rush. That’s just plain farked up.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    March 16, 2010 at 9:19 am

    @PTirebiter: When I knew her in undergrad, she had a normal, Midwestern manner of speaking. She was also a reasonable, garden-variety Republican, and not a wingnut. Her manner of speaking may be disturbing now, but it’s nowhere near as disturbing as knowing what she was, and seeing what she’s become.

  17. 17.

    PTirebiter

    March 16, 2010 at 9:20 am

    @Cat Lady: On the bright side, the odds of another iPod listening jogger getting killed by a propeller-less plane landing on that stretch of beach are astronomical. You’d be safe there.

  18. 18.

    PTirebiter

    March 16, 2010 at 9:29 am

    @Ash Can: Holy mackerel, that would seem to require an off-the- charts level of cynical calculation. That would also make it damn near impossible to believe there’s some sort of firewall between her and Thomas’s rulings. Very depressing.

  19. 19.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 16, 2010 at 9:31 am

    Wingnuts play the Shakespeare Card. Or, wake me when the revolutions starts, to be or not to be a poor dead Julius Caesar. Or something like that.

    Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) took up Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-SC) Shakespearean warning today that the American people must “beware the Ides of March” when it comes to health care reform

    Trent Lott agreed today on Fox News: “Shakespeare warned us to beware the Ides of March. That’s today, and I have a very ominous feeling about what’s fixing to happen on health care votes.”

    Must admit. I’m a little impressed with using literature for political ammo.

    edit – I bet health insurance was cheap in Shakespeare’s day, as was life itself.

  20. 20.

    R-Jud

    March 16, 2010 at 9:32 am

    @Cat Lady: Great. I’m already worried about cars, bikes, rapists, and swans on my morning run as it is. Now planes?

  21. 21.

    Ash Can

    March 16, 2010 at 9:37 am

    @PTirebiter: I haven’t talked to her in decades, so I have no idea what route her political development took, or why. But I can’t imagine the Ginny I knew years ago doing something with such odious appearances as this tea party project of hers. She was smarter and more principled than that. Or so I thought.

  22. 22.

    Sentient Puddle

    March 16, 2010 at 9:39 am

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: Meh, it sounds to me like your lazy high schooler’s Shakespeare essay. They know that the Ides of March is the 15th, but they can’t figure out how to connect it to anything substantive because there is nothing substantive to connect it to. So they’re just throwing it out there, maybe obfuscating it enough to show that they don’t have any substance. Can’t even say Lott and Sanford even try that, though.

  23. 23.

    Linda Featheringill

    March 16, 2010 at 10:11 am

    Another picture of my friend, Mojii.

    http://tinyurl.com/yhkxd9f

    [who is supervising the posting of pic of Himself]

  24. 24.

    PTirebiter

    March 16, 2010 at 10:12 am

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    Must admit. I’m a little impressed with using literature for political ammo.

    I’ll bet more Republicans bought The Ides of March LP in the 70’s than have ever read Julius Caesar.

  25. 25.

    BC

    March 16, 2010 at 11:47 am

    Re Ides of March – wanna bet who looked at the entrails of a goat to make that prediction? My hunch is it was at Mickey Kaus’ place.

  26. 26.

    Linda Featheringill

    March 16, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Ernest Ranglin, again –

    I’ll swear, that man’s music makes me want to jump up and do things my mama would never have approved of!

    [this time I’m freaking out over “Stop That Train.”]

  27. 27.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 16, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: So freaking cute.

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