Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

White supremacy is terrorism.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Everybody saw this coming.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

“woke” is the new caravan.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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  1. 1.

    J R in WV

    WVU plays Gonzaga next Thursday, if I understand the BB schedule correctly.

    I used to like basketball a lot, but then I worked in TV for a couple of years, and we did the state HS basketball championships, which were 3 days, 4 games a day, twice. I burned my BB-liking part right out of my brain. I think it was the middle of the first day, the second year that it happened. Went from kind of fun to OMG stop the bouncing balls!!

    But I watched much of the WVU Notre Dame game and enjoyed it. Of course, our guys won going away, which was part of enjoying it. But I’ll try some more basketball and see how it works out. Let’s GO ‘EERS!!

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Schedule, if I understand correctly, here.

    Anne Laurie, you do my heart good. At last, I’ve found someone on the planet who apparently knows and/or cares even less about basketball than I do.

    ETA: But you are a good person for putting up a fresh thread. I don’t knock NCAA/NBA at all. It just doesn’t speak to me, any more than most of my own interests speak to other folks. Makes the world go round and keeps it interesting.

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    @J R in WV: I board op’ed a shitload of Memphis State games. Unlike shows we took from the bird, you actually had to listen to games to get the breaks. Annoying.

  9. 9.

    raven

    Great article. I remember when Princeton almost beat Georgetown and I was in a bar full of people and I was the only one watching the game! 25 years of sobriety have taken me out of the bar scene bit every game is on now so it doesn’t matter.

  14. 14.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: I may have mentioned something in one of the long threads this morning, but then I gave up and was off-line for a while.

  16. 16.

    jharp

    Trump tax return from 2005 was very misleading.

    $25 million of his great year he had to pay back for defrauding Trump University suckers.

    Yes in 2005 Trump U was defrauding it’s students.

  20. 20.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Mike J: Jack Eaton was the best! Boy, it was scary how old and decrepit he looked when I would go back to Memphis and catch him on the news.

  22. 22.

    japa21

    @raven: I hope they are not just teasing us. My bracket has Kansas winning it all, but I don’t care. I want MSU to win.

  28. 28.

    ThresherK

    The mens’ first round had upsets by (3) 11-seeds and (1) 12-seed. (Also a ten-seed, but it’s anyone’s call if that’s an upset).

    The womens’ first round had (1) 12-seed and (1) 10-seed win.

    The “sum of seeds” for the Sweet Sixteen has been a pretty good metric to show how upset-laden any tournament is. I’ll crunch some numbers later if I have the time.

  31. 31.

    japa21

    If Arkansas hangs on against NC, that would leave Duke as the only possible ACC team in the Sweet 16.

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