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" (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post From The Blog&amp;#039;s Second-Favorite Canadian.) Let me look at my brackets. Hmm, nice job by the scandal-ridden Harvard program. (Cheating bastids though they are.) Were I to have another child, it likely would be named Vander Blue, which sounds like either a Dutch pop band from the late 1960&amp;#039;s or a film starring Annette Haven. I notice that Marquette, Gonzaga, St. Louis University, and Georgetown, all Jesuit institutions, all are still alive. I also notice that the new pope is a Jesuit. Coincidence? I think not. I remind you all that you simply do not fk with The Society because The Society will fk your shit up for you, in Latin. When this history of our species in written, whoever writes it is not going to know what to make of the Wallenda family except for the fact that they are one of the most amazingly cool families ever. To make things more interesting, Wallenda doesn&amp;#039;t plan to use a safety harness or net. One wrong step and it&amp;#039;s 1,500 feet straight down to the Little Colorado River.  Interesting is not the word I would use. This guy, the king of the high wire, is the great-grandson of Karl, who died in 1978 when he fell off a wire in Puerto Rico and (this is absolutely true) nearly landed on some of the Boston Red Sox, who were in town to play an exhibition game. It was Karl who said, &amp;quot;Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.&amp;quot; which is one of the coolest things ever said by anyone. All in all, I&amp;#039;d say burning the planet down so we can find more groovy old stuff is not a fair exchange. Though melting glaciers demonstrate the very real environmental threat facing the earth, this recent finding shows the benefit of climate change to the field of archaeology. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s worrying that glaciers are melting, but it&amp;#039;s exciting for us archaeologists,&amp;quot; Lars Piloe, a Danish archaeologist who works on Norway&amp;#039;s glaciers, told Reuters. Hey, Lars. There are some folks in Australia who are very happy for you but, if it&amp;#039;s OK with you, they&amp;#039;d rather have Tasmania back, thanks. Apparently, dudes in Fourth Century Norway dressed like, well, The Dude. Scientists have found a pre-Viking tunic in a thawing glacier, a discovery they say highlights a rare advantage of global climate change. Reuters reports that the woolen garment was uncovered in 2011 in south Norway, 6,560 feet above sea level on what is believed to have been a Roman-era trade route. Carbon dating revealed that the greenish-brown tunic was made around the year 300... It was the rug that held the whole room together, though. Back a few years ago, when they had the Super Bowl next door at Reliant Stadium, they gave us all tours of the abandoned Astrodome. It was a creepy old joint now, and it doesn&amp;#039;t seem to have improved with age. Giant signs touting bearing outdated logos for corporate sponsors like Continental Airlines hang over orange seats with ripped cushions. Skyboxes are furnished with outdated furniture and old Zenith television sets. Astroturf sits carelessly tossed on the stadium floor, folded over like discarded carpet left behind in an abandoned home.  And the spirits of Larry Dierker and Jesus Alou stalk the aisles, howling for the head of Jim Bouton. As an occasional feature, we have been celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Watergate affair, largely through the indefatigable Stanley Kutler&amp;#039;s collations of the relevant White House tapes. Today, in fact, is a red-letter day for this feature because, 40 years ago, Richard Nixon, history&amp;#039;s yard waste, said this to H.R. Haldeman: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else if it&amp;#039;ll save it-save the plan. That&amp;#039;s the whole point ... We&amp;#039;re going to protect our people, if we can.&amp;quot; Yeah, he was a crook. We&amp;#039;ll be back Monday with the usual gobshitery. Stay safe and play nice, ya bastids, or the pope&amp;#039;s not gonna invite you to his Final Four party. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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