Edwin MacPhisto

Just regular glasses, usually. I like Kinetic's me even more, though.

Zobaie sums it up pretty nicely with "No democracy in Iraq. Ever." We accelerated a civil war in another country without even understanding that country, and we're now trying to win a civil war. Another country's civil war. Fucking retarded.

The level of Iraqi casualties is even more embarrassing. IraqBodyCount has it at 82,349 – 89,867 right now. That's using an extremely conservative standard of estimation, too--only reported deaths connected to insurgent or Coalition involvement. I guess they're all just worthless Muslims who deserve death anyway, huh? Go 'murrica. I actually do believe that the situation in Iraq is "improving," but that's kind of like the moment on Arrested Development when the Bluth Company gets upgraded from "Sell!" to "Don't Buy!" What a retarded disaster.

You really "hit" that one out of "the" park!

Yeah, I was gonna say...Coat can definitely get one of those two picks of his, since it's his turn. Actually, we appear to have gone the entire weekend without any picks.

The bracket I spent 45 seconds on is #35 out of 8,000 in the SI.com blogpool on Facebook. I will never actively think again.

Oh, that is gonna be so much fun at work tomorrow. Lot of Georgetown grads who (foolishly) thought this year's team was better than last year's Final Four squad.

The CBS tech guys must be having multiple aneurysms trying to stay on top of all these games at once. Great afternoon of basketball.

My favorite is either "T-Rex fucks Santa on an asteroid," or "Huge monster fucks the Twin Towers." The latter probably wins, cause it's titled "memorial.gif."

The only thing worse than the cover of Human Clay is the cover of the Creed album that came after that, where all their faces were in trees or some shit.

Similarly, there's nothing about that video I didn't like.

Great finish of the UCLA/A&M with the steal and FUCK YOU DUNK to ice it as the backboard goes red. That's an iconic image of this year's tournament for sure.

dies nuts

West Virginia over Duke was my most confident 2nd round pick. I'm glad I'm getting at least one of them right at this point. Even gladder to see overseeded, ferret-led suckas go down. Also, this tournament has really highlighted for me how great an addition Kyle Singler is to the pantheon of Duke players with retarded faces.

I want the handgun ban in D.C. to stick. The last thing this area needs is drunk Hill staffers in boat shoes having another irritating thing to talk about. "My gun is so awesome man. So awesome. John McCain man. Hey, do you party?"

The guarantee that we'll have a pair of 12/13 seeds in the Sweet 16 makes me a happy tourney watcher.

A buzzer beater and a 13 over 4 in one afternoon. I am officially content with the first weekend of the tournament already.

I oppose any expansion because the tournament as it stands is the best-organized and most satisfying playoff any any league. Three consecutive weekends, each pretty unique. The first is absolute saturation, with endless games and a whopping 3/4 of the field eliminated right off the bat. The second weekend yields some of the best matchups of the college basketball season, and you can watch every one of them. The third weekend is the culmination of it all and all three days have a sort of Super Bowl-esque hysteria about them. I think stretching it out much longer could put it dangerously close to exceeding most people's attention spans, though. Edit: I wonder if Morrison's look for the day was a pre-planned Good Friday costume. He nailed it.

That girl has a remarkably lumpish head.

Good enough to interrupt my typing. Took 20 games, but we got a buzzer beater. Awesome game, absurd shot. Getting that game and Adam Morrison looking sad in the stands of Gonzaga/Davidson makes this the best flight of games so far.

I like Verne Lundquist's endless puns on Josh Young's name, and the fact that Klayton Korver -s BUZZER BEEEEEEATERRRRRRR YEEEEAH

Medium rare at home or out. Olive oil, salt, pepper, that's it, and a small pat of butter on top afterwards while I let the juices settle throughout the meat. I like a nice porterhouse to get some variety in a single steak, though I probably do the best job cooking a New York strip.

And Davidson has come back on top of Gonzaga! Which game to chooooooooooose. Also, WKU has dominated Drake since the last 3 minute or so of the first half, so it looks we'll got the obligatory 12/5 upset out of the way.

3 points for the least necessary thread in the history of thread-dom