... when my Scarlet Knights decided not to play. It's strange, but apparently when you don't box out, can't shoot and are completely out-coached, it is hard to win games. C. Vivian Stringer is a legend and I wouldn't deign to criticize her. She's forgotten more about hoops than I'll ever know, but why the hell were they not pressing the final ten minutes? God lord, they looked resigned to losing.

Anyway, it was a good run and they're returning everyone. So hopefully there'll be a rematch next year.

By the way, it is Kia Vaughn, not Tia Vaughn. Someone should correct that.

By the way, anyone notice that the Sabres clinched the conference last night in manhandling Sid the Kid and the rest of the Penguins, despite the VS. announcing team doing their best to downplay Buffalo? Anyone?

The announcers mentioned that Parker could go play overseas, where there's much bigger money. Of course, it's cold in Russia. Maybe Brazil has a prowomen's league...

A hour before this was posted, TPMMuckraker.com commented on this same WaPo article using the same Rocky reference about Eye of the Tiger.

TPMMuckraker.com: "It's a scene reminiscent of a training montage from the Rocky movies...(excerpt) You can almost hear "Eye of The Tiger" in the background."

In my line of work, when you take someone else's ideas and don't give credit for it, that's called plagiarism. And if someone beats you to it, you don't get to claim that you came up with on your own.

Am I missing something?

Alex Koppelman, please respond.

First of all, I would agree that donning the scarf (as many courteous Western women might do in any Mosque or orthodox Jewish temple) is as accceptable as my wearing a yarmulke while attending a Bar Mitvah. It is a sign of respect.

Second of all, there is a wide-ranging and thoughtful academic literature on the issue of the veil/scarf historically and currently. It is not something that has been universally worn by all Muslims since the time of the Prophet, nor is it necessarily seen as anti-women by all of its wearers. This can be seen especially in the case of Muslim women in Turkey and France who desire a higher education ( a progressive and, one would think, universally-desired outcome), but are kept out of universities and medical schools because of their desire to put a piece of cloth over their heads.

Not surpisingly, a topic which intersects with race, religion, gender, imperialism and our basic freedom to run our lives as we see it is more complex and nuanced than many observers want to admit. Of course the President doesn't "do nuance."

A good starting place for a historical discussion of this issue is the classic article "The Discourse of the Veil" by Leila Ahmed in her seminal book Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Yale University Press, 1992).

Everyone once in a while I'll get in the car and NPR will have something boring on and I'm too lazy to hook up the ipod for the short trip home and I will begin to listen to Cowherd. After all, my commute's only 9 minute, you think you could stand anything for 9 minutes. I never make it.

He literally says the same thing, in the same words, a dozen times in a row. My three year old would lose patience with that rhetorical strategy and say 'papa, I understand. you told me already' after the third or fourth time.

Oh, and then there was the time he was belittling Italian soccer by saying the only decent thing to ever come out of Italy was Picasso! It comforted me at least to know that maybe there was an employment future for all my C students after all.