MARCH MADNESS

 Good morning. It is time to start another week. Here's what we are thinking about. 

The US is in a pickle. No off ramp in Iran, and fighting an enemy who has identified victory as outlasting, outwitting, and surviving the attacks. Where have we seen that before? (Hint: Vietnam). Here's something fun: 

Nate Swanson spent nearly two decades in the U.S. government, including most recently as a State Department representative on the Trump administration’s Iran negotiating team and previously as the National Security Council’s director for Iran in the Biden administration. Days before the U.S. bombed Iran, Swanson published a piece predicting that Iran would do exactly what it has done should the U.S. attack. So he's our government expert, right, providing the President with much needed expert advice? Nope. He was forced out of government because some rightwing influencer nut attacked him and MAGA responded. Here's the Politico article.  This is what happens when you govern by a mob. 

The convicted founder of a Women's Orgasmic group is set to be sentenced in federal court today. 

First floor escalator in the REGJB working yet?  Your judge uses a private elevator, so they won't know of the tribulations of hoi polloi.  

March Madness. And in case you're like Mr. Markus, in the middle of a Venezuelan oil/50 million fraud trial and working all weekend, or a robed reader polishing your candy crush scores, you may have missed this ending to the Duke -Connecticut elite 8 matchup.  From 15 points down at the half, UConn came back to win on a last minute 3 from the logo. Two questions: 1) Duke should not have passed and instead held the ball to draw a foul, right? And 2) Is Braylon Mullin's shot better than Christian Laettner's shot in 1992 propelling #1 Duke over #2 Kentucky into the final four?  What a great debate. 

 

 Here is Laettner's shot :