Twitter: The @midmajority, asking the Qs the MSM won’t. @OmarSamhan ♥ @taylorswift13! RT: That was me. Best Tournament Ever. http://bit.ly/azf7TS
With apologies to major-conference Cinderella Washington and mid-major non-Cinderellas Butler and Xavier, all of whom try tonight to pull off an upset and move within a game of an unlikely Final Four appearance (at home in Indy, in Butler’s case), this evening’s most fascinating Sweet 16 matchup has got to be Kentucky vs. Cornell. I say this not just because… Read more »
You’ve probably already seen this, but I hadn’t until this evening. Courtesy of Jim Kelly on the LRT Facebook Fan Page, a glorious adaption of Schoolhouse Rock for the Biden Era, after the jump because of profanity (but you really should click and see)…
FriendFeed: LOL… a tweet by the coach of the UConn women’s next opponent, Iowa State: RT @ISUCoachFen Probably should not have watched so much video on UCONN–going to have nightmares!! Wow what a great team (via @LukeMeredithAP)
Heading into the NIT Final Four, Josh Rubin still leads the Living Room Times NIT Pool — but he is mathematically eliminated from winning it. Regardless of what happens at Madison Square Garden next week, someone will pass Rubin in the pool standings. Rubin, Greg Kagan and Dan Port were knocked out of contention Wednesday when Rhode Island beat Virginia… Read more »
Twitter: Rhode Island advances to NIT semis: http://bit.ly/bAFZG4. Josh Rubin, Greg Kagan, Dan Port eliminated in NIT Pool: http://bit.ly/bPubhb.
FriendFeed: Updated Senate rankings from Five Thirty Eight: Dems projected to hold 54-46 advantage; 10% chance of GOP takeover, 8% chance of 50-50 split
Mitt Romney in 2006, in the WSJ, on universal health care in Massachusetts: 40% of the uninsured were earning enough to buy insurance but had chosen not to do so. Why? Because it is expensive, and because they know that if they become seriously ill, they will get free or subsidized treatment at the hospital. By law, emergency care cannot… Read more »
Twitter: LOL! RT @benpolitico: I kind of like Big F-ing Deal as successor to Square Deal, New Deal. (via @mattyglesias)
Two of the biggest, if not the two biggest, snowstorms we’ve gotten this winter in Denver, didn’t happen during the winter at all. The first was just before Halloween. The second was last night and this morning, during many local schools’ spring break, several days after the vernal equinox. Go figure. Anyway, here are a couple of photos from this… Read more »