Oh, How Convenient, Here Comes March Madness

Poor Bush Administration, it's been a rough 2-3 weeks hasn't it? Just look at the problems they've faced recently:
The I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby conviction (his name listed in full strictly for the ridiculous factor)
Suspicious US Attorney firings
FBI Patriot Act abuse scandal
Walter Reed 18 issues

Looks like they could use another crazy astronaut scandal-sized event to come along to get people focused in a different direction...how convenient there just so happens to be such an event on the horizon...

MARCH MADNESS!!!!!

Yes, folks, it's tourney time once again. Time for those of us who haven't seen a college basketball game since last year's title game (and maybe even farther back than that if you're bracket got completely screwed up in the Sweet 16) to go print out your bracket or two and start guessing about teams you've never heard of (wtf is a Virginia Commonwealth? What's the difference between Texas A&M & Texas A&M-CC? Where on a map can I find Wright State?). And yet, we all do it every year, even though we know we have no idea who'll win (although, in fairness, neither do the 'experts'), and we all throw our brackets away and cheer for big upsets as soon as the games get close.

The good news for a lot of classroom/office drones out there, the NCAA is offering all of the games streaming online for free, just in case you don't already waste enough time in class/work on facebook/myspace/youtube anyway, now you'll have another option.

Time to pick my 'darkhorse' favorite this year, a real sleeper team poised for a Cinderella run...I'm going with Washington St. as a semi-sleeper and Winthrop as "this year's George Mason". Overall, I'm going to pick (at least for today...final bracket predictions to come Thursday morning) Maryland, UCLA, Georgetown, and Texas A&M to the Final 4, with UCLA-Georgetown as the title game, with the Bruins winning it all....or maybe Georgetown...or Maryland....or Kansas...or Wright State. Who knows, who cares, it's the first weekend and that means I just wanna see upsets!