It Is Spring Break After All

AITOOW thinks Jim Calhoun's "heart issue" sounds fishy? I wouldn't be at all suprised if he has an alcohol problem and had a few too many the night before. He always had the look of a lush in my eyes.

You Play To Win The Seed

AITOOW who would rather see teams play every other team once than replay teams while competing in a double elimination round robin? These pools like in the WBC or Olympics or World Cup make the luck of the draw too consequential. You would have to add games, but, each country could return home with their personal pyrhic victories and bragging rights over someone. Then the top two teams can battle it out for the crown. You would spread the money trail out over the course of the games (instead of being back ended) and see every possible combo of teams. For some countries the head to head against a nemisis is more important than the crown. You could do away with so many rest and travel days.

Pass the Buck

AITOOW finds it funny that a year ago we were talking about taxing hedge funds out of existence and now we are giving them 93 to 7 financing? How many bahjillionaires will this create? I wonder how many recently displaced IB's will be buying their old portfolios for their new employers?

Why We Are In A Recession

AITOOW laughs at the '00's as compared to the 90's (I also laugh at the the '90's as compared to the 80's) on the topic of innovation? I can't think of one new creation. Blogs are just re-packaged message boards. I Pods are just re-packaged MP3 players. I Phone is just consilidation. You Tube is just a video message board. Facebook is just a public intranet. HDTV was invented in the 90's. Snuggy is just a backwards robe. I think the one invention to come out of this century is the Sham Wow.

Less Chins Than A Chinese...

AITOOW wonders if it Asians are so smart why there are next to none involved in public service? Is it because we are too dumb to include them or they are too smart to accept? Couldn't the Treasury use their math proficiency?

800 Math, 600 Verbal

AITOOW is disturbed by the new buzz word - "optics"? As in - the optics on the AIG bonus scandal are terrible. This is an incorrect use of the term. Stop trying to turn every adjective or verb into a noun.

Reprecussions Of A Kent School Education

AITOOW didn't understand that interlude on Family Guy Sunday in which they cut to a full version of a Conway Twitty song? Did they lose a bet? Did they run a minute or two short of material? It was excessive. Even for them. I does show the perils of growing up in a non-cable universe. No way some lobster fuckers from RI would have ever seen Hee Haw (or whatever that was) if they had more than one channel growing up. Although they had one of the better observations ever about a dog being woken up by his own farts.