In 2019, ek hornbeck wrote: “If you’re reading this it’s because I’m still napping. It is the debut of the Lady Huskies in this year’s Tournament and I’d look up the fight song but I’m also lazy.” He found it later after a nap. Yup, this is mind bending. Fortunately, ek left me the map, …
March 2021 archive
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Regional Quarterfinals- Day 1, Afternoon
Last year ek hornbeck created a “New and Improved with Special (and a subtly different pain in the ass) Table for Results. So this is the one I’ll be using today and for future games. The winners will be bolded and the upset winners will be on the right, the lower seeds are always on …
Mar 21 2021
NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1- Afternoon
In 2019 ek hornbeck wrote this: I assure you I have something incredibly trenchant and profound to say about the state of Women’s Basketball, but I’m already at least 40 hours into this project out of the last 72 or so and I’m afraid my brain is totally fried. Fortunately most of the heavy …
Mar 21 2021
The Breakfast Club (za)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for March 21st Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurs; Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison; Musician Johann Bach born. Breakfast Tune Jens Kruger plays Bach Cello Suite No. 1 on …
Mar 21 2021
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition
Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. On Sunday mornings …
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Evening
The UConn men are up tonight along with my very favorite team, Gonzaga. Yes, I know I’m an East coast gal who graduated from some highly rated East coast universities, NYU being one of them, and Gonzaga is a Jesuit run institution named after Jesuit saint Aloysius Gonzaga and I’m not Catholic, not even close. When …
Mar 20 2021
In Case You Missed It – It’s Spring
While you were sleeping the sun slipped over the equator and it became Spring at 5:37 AM EDT, astronomically speaking. Huh? There’s a difference somewhere? Yup. According to the good old Farmer’s Almanac, it’s been Spring since March 1, meteorologically speaking. Q: Does Spring Begin on March 1 or on the Equinox? A: Well, both. …
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Afternoon
By the end of the day half the teams that started on Thursday will be headed home, half will be moving on to the next round. There were a few upsets as teams seeded higher beat the expected winner: ek hornbeck would have been happy, #11 Syracuse literally wiped the court with #6 San Diego …
Mar 20 2021
Cartnoon
Cleopatra’s Needle (New York City) Cleopatra’s Needle in New York City is one of three similarly named Egyptian obelisks. It was erected in Central Park, west of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, on January 22, 1881. It was secured in May 1877 by judge Elbert E. Farman, the United States Consul General at …
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