The March Of Folly

Is actually a really good book by now dead historian Barbara Tuchman, and you should all go out and read it. But just read it in the bookstore. It's not like Barbara needs the royalties now anyway.

Of course, that's not what this is about, because if I were to write a blog about history and good books to read about history and how history continues to repeat itself and how we can all learn from it, my readership would consist of two or three pipe-smoking shut-ins with tweed jackets and patched elbows, rather than the current mix of all around degenerates and heavily armed lesbians. And of the two groups, guess which one is more fun?

No, this is for March Madness and my final four picks. Unfortunately, this year I did it too late to make much difference for you, because if history is any guide, (like how I worked that in? You can take the history major out of school, but you can't get him laid in a two-bit whorehouse with 50 cents, because he's still a huge nerd), my final four will have little or nothing in common with the four teams that actually make it.

So, with apologies to all those with routing interests in these teams, here are four teams who should be back on campus within the next week or so. Kansas, Florida, Ohio State and Texas, with Texas beating Kansas to win it all. Now if anyone needs me, I'll be at the bottom of the pool with the only kind of wood that doesn't float...Natalie Wood.

That was for Soozie.