Louisville, Kansas, Oklahoma and UNC better win tonight or my bracket will be completely decimated. After yesterday’s stunning losses by Memphis and Duke, I dropped from tied for 1st in my pool to 13th. Those weren’t just losses, really. Missouri and Villanova hammered their opponents; Duke wasn’t in the game after halftime. Memphis gave it …

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You know the Republicans released what they laughingly called a budget alternative yesterday, right? (I say laughingly because it essentially has no numbers in it, which makes it not a budget in the world I inhabit.) At that link you will see a diagram pulled directly from the 17-page document they call a budget. The …

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