March 2016 archive

NCAA Men’s Tournament 2016: Regional Semi-Finals (Round of 16) Day 1

Play Ins and Round of 64 Results Regional Quarter-Finals (Round of 32) Results Our designated underdog is Maryland, a 5 seed. Tonight picks the teams for the South and West Regional Finals (Round of 8) on March 26th (Saturday). Tonight’s Match-Ups   Time Channel Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region 7:10 pm CBS 2 …

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NCAA Men’s Tournament 2016: Results Recap Part 2

Play Ins and Round of 64 Results   Seed Team Record Score Seed Team Record Score Region 1 Kansas 32 – 4 73 9 *Connecticut 25 – 11 61 South 5 Maryland 27 – 8 73 13 Hawaii 28 – 6 60 South 3 Miami (Fla.) 27 – 7 65 11 Wichita State 26 – …

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NCAA Men’s Tournament 2016: Results Recap Part 1

These tables, by far the longest and most intricate of the ones I will present, are the results of the Play Ins and the Round of 64. Later I will give you the results of the Regional Quarter-Finals (Round of 32) and then tonight’s Match-Ups. Play Ins Day 1   Team Record Score Team Record …

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It’s Not Achievable

What Atrios said   I get trying to stop people from blowing up planes, but you can’t realistically stop them from blowing up the parking lot. But despite a series of episodes in recent years that have targeted transportation hubs worldwide, security experts predict that the latest attacks will revive — but not resolve — …

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Obama’s Bad SCOTUS Choice

President Barack Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme court is not the nominee the left was dreaming about last month. Any justice who has won the praise of neocon Senator Orin Hatch and Fox …

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The Breakfast Club (Surviving)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …

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The Daily Late Nightly Show (Hump Day)

Yeah, tomorrow is insanely busy again. Regional Semis and Results Recap. The New Guy Third Month Mania Desi Lydic Returns Taavi Roivas Exclusive Extended Trevor’s guests this week are- Wednesday 3/23: Lindsey Graham Thursday 3/24: Ethan Hawke Lindsey Graham is just a horrible human being. He will say something stupid and evil about Brussels. Mr. …

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Junk Economics

I really can’t do better than Yves does in introducing this piece other than to mention I am a trained Historian and as such Economics was never presented as an independent discipline, but always in the context of Political Philosophy. Thus for me Smith, Malthus, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx; Feudalism, Merchantilism, and Industrial and Political …

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Kids Caucus

Two pieces from Salon today have focus groups with children, or as I like to call them, pre-voters. I think it’s actually kind of important because I feel the surfeit of assholes and political ignoramuses of a certain age coincides directly with the influence of Ronald Reagan, that senile Traitor so beloved of Villagers. “I …

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The Breakfast Club (Risking It All)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …

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