Tuesday

Just for the record...it looks like FFF is formally a "go" for Des Moines on March 19-21 for the opening weekend of March Madness. 

Scheduled attendees include Peyton Lynne and her mother.  I'm shopping for hotels in West Des Moines.  Tentative arrival of the QC contingent is 6:30 local on Friday night.  By my count, March 20th is Margaret's 102nd birthday.

I've got even less of a clue today on the new Blogger format.

More to follow later.

LATER:  A couple of interesting public reactions/no-reactions to some media events.  ESPN suspended resident fool Tony Kornheiser (also an analyst on Monday Night Football) for some disparaging remarks that he made extemporariously on his radio show earlier this week about the git-up that Hannah Storm was wearing for a SportsCenter show.  (Looking at the outfit, I'd say Kornheiser got it right.)  Would there have been a suspension if the roles were reversed?  I think not. Guys can be called about anything, publicly, by almost any woman with a credibility quotient above zero.

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Then you have the, at least controversial, portrayal on FOX TV's animated show The Family Guy (which I have still never seen) of a Down's Syndrom character in what was supposed to be a humorous fashion.  The fact that the premise was a left-handed (Freudian non-slip there...sorry), undisguised slap at Sarah Palin  made most of the critics and commentator's applaud the edginess of the writer, albeit a bit cautiously.  I'm wondering where those wags would be if the character was in an Afro-American family from Illinois?  (Well, uh, actually that's a bad question.  Let's face it, the writer would not have made that scenario a Black family from Illinois, because his career would have found a home among the crickets.)

Early spin.  Still hotel hunting for March Madness.

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