March 2012
31 posts
Ellen the Generous
The cases of these young teens spurred a lot of attention from media icons. Anderson Cooper and Ellen the generous joined to voice their concerns against LGBTQ bullying.
“She bought it online.”
“She bought it from the internet.”
“She bought it from off the internet.”
“She bought it off online.”
“She bought it offline.”
And that’s the story of how offline came to mean the same thing as online.
Herbs de Provenance
Rejected title for a new library/archives and sustainable gardening/food and general lifestyle blog.
“Our Father, who art on hardwood, Basketball be thy name. Thy tourney come, thy Dance be done, in Greensboro as it is in the Dean Dome. Give us this day our daily win, and forgive us our travels, as we forgive those who travel against us. And lead us not into technicals, but deliver us to New Orleans, for thine is the hoop, and the ball, and the glory, forever and ever. Go Heels. Amen.”
—
Bracket Rule #38
Select one, and only one, team named [Something-that-is-not-a-state] State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
ABC Family are the biggest Harry Potter fans I have seen.
Harry Potter weekend is the best kind of weekend because it’s 8 days long.
The Life and Times of a Wrench Wench: Politics and March Madness →
wrench-wench.tumblr.com
According to ESPN, President Obama has Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri, and UNC as his Final Four picks for this years NCAA tournament. They’ll air the interview that has all of the details of his bracket choices on SportsCenter tomorrow. For the last two years, he picked Kansas to win it all, and they let him down. In 2009, he picked UNC, and we won the championship.
Obviously, he should pick UNC as the NCAA Championship winner. Not just because we’re awesome, but because it will help him politically. Let me break it down for you:
- North Carolina has 15 electoral votes
- North Carolina is a swing state
- In 2008, Obama won North Carolina by 0.32%, or 13,993 votes.
- The staff and students of UNC are all likely to vote in this year’s election, and there are 41,442 of them.
- Not to mention all of the alumni, and general Tar Heels fans.
While McCain won Missouri by only 0.15%, Obama shouldn’t blow his bracket trying to curry favor with them because a) they have fewer electoral votes than North Carolina (only 11), and b) they don’t care about basketball like voters in North Carolina do.
There is no chance of Obama winning Kentucky in the election, so obviously he shouldn’t pick them.
The only other vaguely reasonably pick from a political standpoint would be Ohio State. Ohio is a swing state with 20 electoral votes, and Obama only won it by 4.59% (258,897 votes) in 2008. Now, OSU only has 92,661 students and staff, but they have a lot of statewide support. Again though, Ohio State is more of a football school, and they’re less likely to remember Obama picking them as NCAA basketball champs.
TL;DR Obama should pick UNC to win the national championship for his bracket because we’re awesome and it will help him win North Carolina in the presidential election.
Update: Obama picks the Swing State University Tarheels to win the 2012 championship!
Hey remember last year when Charles Clotfelter’s book Big Time Sports at American Universities came out with a study that indicated, among other things, a school’s participation in the NCAA tournament led to a reduced usage of the institution’s academic databases in March compared to peer institutions not participating in the tournament?
That was fun.
Disclaimer
This is normally a general-interest blog about six or seven different things, but between St. Brackets Day and the National Championship Game, it is only about college basketball.
And brackets.
St. Brackets Day
Today is the most sacred holiday in my land. Who else is doing a bracket?
I think I actually heard the entire town of Chapel Hill just breathe a sigh of relief.
Also the entire “free world” is just a love letter to the penis so do we really need more poems about it?
I say no
“I remember sayin’ I don’t care either way
Just as long as he or she is healthy, I’m okay
And then the doctor pointed to the corner of the screen
And said, ‘You see that thing right there? Well, you know what that means’.”
- Brad Paisley, “Ode to the penis on the ultrasound” “Anything Like Me”
