• Wow, all this time I thought Issac Hayes was a cool cat; turns out he’s little bitch. Apparently, after almost 10 years of playing a character voice to one of the most offensive shows out there, he has had it with the program's bigoted stance on religion.

N*gga plz.

Now South Park has goofed on just about everything under the sun, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone have had a field day with every religion out there, from Catholics to Jews to Buddists. This let's-make-fun-of-everybody mentality is what has made this show great. I find it hard to believe that an episode last year that goofed on Scientology would offend Hayes to the point he would quit. This was around the time I learned Issac was followed this goofy religion/practice/whatever the hell it is. Waaaaaah. Cry me a river. Stone said it best when responding to Hayes’ tantrum that the singer “Wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.”

I think it’d be great if they still used Chef’s voice but instead voiced him with some dopey white guy, or change the voice every episode to include other races.

• Well, the March Madness brackets have been devised, and now it’s time to bitch about all the teams that didn’t make it into the field of 65. I don’t follow college basketball, so I have no idea who got hosed and who did not, however, the one team that made me go “wha-?” was Air Force; how’d they make it in?

This brings up an interesting argument about which teams should be allowed in. Do teams from conferences like the Big East and ACC that have mediocre records get the last few spots, or should teams from the Never-Heard-Of-It Conference get a bid for going 29-5 against universities that you didn’t know existed? I can see the argument from both sides. After all, take the fighting Colonials of Widget State Tech University, put them in the Big 10 and watch them get slaughtered. However, I say let these 15- and 16-seeded teams play. After all, schools like Maryland will surely make it back to the NCAA Tournament in a year or so, but how often will many of these school get the chance to be considered for the greatest tournament in all the land?

If Maryland made the postseason and lost in the first round, the fans and players would just go “eh” and move on. But a school like Southern U, who will undoubtedly get crushed by Duke in the first round, will look back at their tournament experience and revel in it. Players will talk about when they kept Duke’s lead to single digits, or if they held JJ Redick to under 40 points. If some of the bigger schools whine about not getting in the tournament, then they should have won a few more games. This isn’t Division One Football, where one loss puts a team out of so-called “National Championship” contention.

• This story made me laugh. No, it’s not due to some media conglomerate conspiracy I have. It’s just that Kevin McClatchy owns the Shittsburgh Pirates, and you would think that after buying $4.5 billion for a dying media, he would at least try to boost his baseball team’s payroll by a smidgen in hopes of making the franchise somewhat competitive (and around here that means getting near the .500 mark).