Four teams and two rounds? Eight teams and three rounds? Sixteen and four? Thirty two and five?

What is the magic number that will eliminate poo flinging?

There are too many teams, too many conferences, and too many games against weak opponents to have a legitimate Champion. No system will ever work.

Ever.

If you take away the games which pit a big name school against a hapless opponent, you are taking large chunks of money away from the smaller schools. This is as close to revenue sharing as college football gets. Do you really want to take that away?

Seriously, as someone else has already said, let's stop pretending the national championship can ever have any meaning. Because it can't. The logistical requirements of the game make it impossible. Deal with it.

The video was lots of different people from all walks of life. There was even an infant.

Once again Bolling has the pulse of the Plutocracy.

I remember some years ago when I first read Cary Tennis. I was astounded by the depth and the wisdom in the answer he gave to the letter. I went back through the archives, and read several letters, each time really enjoying the the way he answered them.

But over the years, his column has fallen quite a bit in quality. Often he utterly fails to answer the question, or just sideswipes the question while reading far more into the letter that seems justifiable.

The worst part of the column's spiral into inanity is the questions he chooses to answer. Questions that don't need an advice column, or questions that have obvious easy answers.

And now we get this, this please self-aggrandize your self Cary question. He had to bend the rules of his column to justify answering it. It wasn't even a question written to the advice column, just some guy asking for a personal note. And Tennis changed the rules to answer it, so he could wax poetic about how cool he is.

Hooray.

Hillary's biggest negative will always be the enormous number of Republican voters she will bring to the polls. Voters who would otherwise stay at home on election day.

The number of voters who absolutely despise her is staggering. She will energize the Republican base far better than any of the current crop of GOP candidates could dream about. Even if she were somehow able to overcome this and win the White House, the down-ballot votes for the Senate and the House would turn the Congress back over to the Republicans.

You don't pick a candidate who will is virtually guaranteed to turn control of legislative branch to the opposition. It would be utterly stupid and self-defeating.

Wait, we are talking about the Democrats. Utterly Stupid and Self-Defeating is kind of their motto these days.

Several months ago The Onion made this same connection with BS and the campaign trail.

In my opinion, theirs was much funnier. Watch and see what you think:

www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_most_important

First, he trips over the fire hose. Then, he stumbles over the fire hose. Then, he gets knocked down by the fire hose. When a competent firefighter finally takes over the fire hose, Bush runs up, grabs the end, and cause the stream of high-pressure water to knock down other firefighters. And also to spray the wrong house, breaking windows and soaking the living room.

When they finally get him away from the fire hose, he then starts counting the missing children of the widowed grandmother who lives in the burning house. He can't find Sally. He runs around in a panic! Where is Sally? At about that time, the grandmother's cell phone rings. It is Sally, the 43-year-old daughter, calling to check on her mother.

Yeah, I want Bush taking charge at a fire in my neighborhood. Because, after all, he is not an intellectual.

And I am a grown-up.

I repeat this, and everyone ignores it, so I will keep repeating it.

Hillary Clinton will get out the Republican vote like no other Democratic candidate. This will be true in red states, in blue states, in purple states. It may or may not keep her out of the White House, I don't know. But it will almost assuredly get enough down-ballot Republicans elected to Congress that they will win the majority in both houses, and she will not be able to get anything* accomplished.

Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket will almost certainly turn Congress Republican by a wide margin.

I would like to see a female president. I think it would be a good thing in both the short term, and in the long term. I think it would do wonders for our standing in the world, as well as doing wonders for women's right here at home.

I just don't think this is the right woman, because of the vast numbers of people who have such a visceral hatred for her. Specifically those people who wouldn't bother to vote otherwise. People who would stay home one election day if any other candidate were running.

This is an issue we ignore at our peril.

* Anything the Democratic segment of the US population wants, that is. My guess is that Garry Owen is mostly correct, and she will be more of a Corporate-ocrat than anything, and policies that would benefit that segment of our country would sail through Congress.

Why am I such a pain in the ass?

I predict no one will answer this question.

That's an easy one.

You are a pain in the ass because you are such an ignorant coward.

I know, I know, I shouldn't be responding to the cowardly troll, but that one was just hanging there over the center of the plate, as if it were on a tee, and I couldn't resist.