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More thrilling basketball tonight, at least on one side of the bracket...  In other, Rajai! made the Tribe's roster, which is probably ok, but if he makes 50 starts, something has gone awry.  Urshela had a very convenient injury, and the back end of the bullpen is what we would charitably call "flux."  Alas.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/defiant-and-wounded-rick-pitino-insists-he-did-nothing-wrong-and-wants-back-in/ar-BBKwH2T?li=BBnba9I

Hmm... first, I was a little surprised Padgett got fired at Louisville.  I mean, if you want to clean house, I get it, but I am not quite sure anyone else could have done a better job here in the...well, unique circumstances.  Next... Pitino got $1.5 million from a shoe company?  Good Lord, that is a scandal in and of itself.  As for the other stuff... I don't quite believe that he is innocent, though you certainly make a case that he was...well, in the dark.  Again, I don't buy it, but...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/the-last-temptation/554066/

This could be me, but... I think one issue he misses here is that it was the left that broke down much of civil society, and has not suffered one iota of retribution or punishment for it, so... why wouldn't conservatives decide to do the same?

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/15/17124620/green-book-black-americans-travel-segregation
Interesting...sadly so.  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one and seeing if any of these places are still around and if they know of their history...

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2018/03/cuyahoga_county_no_3_nationall.html

I am shocked, shocked that people do not want to live among Hope and Changers...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/21/bill-clinton-donald-trump-lowry-217695

I make this point at work from time to time... I mean, the same stuff the Donald pulls is the same that Clinton did, except now, of course, it is horrible and wrong, but before, it was dragging a hundred through the trailer park and seeing what you can find...