That pic was stolen from iowastartingline.com. Absolutely gave me my best laugh of the week.

My picks are Connecticut in the women’s tournament and Duke on the men’s side. I don’t think an Iowa team has a chance(?). On the women’s side I have been a Paige Bueckers from the time I first saw her five years  or so back. Also a fan of Azzi Fudd who is finally back at full strength. They have quite a line up besides those two.

Basketball on for both sexes seems to be pretty level this year so the tourneys should be really fun to watch with lots of upsets

Can’t avoid the mess MAGA is making of our country, sadly. So much happened with this crooked administration last week, we can’t even come close to covering it all.

A) If DOGE isn’t given access to information in what area, interim head Lee Dudek says he will “turn it off”? 

B) A French minister to the EU has requested that due to recent events the US should return what to France?

C) What company is recalling 46,000 of its pick-up trucks because the glue on front panels are blowing off on the highway?

D) Iowa men’s basketball had some major success in the NCAA Tourney, finishing runner-up in what year? (Hint Bucky O’Connor was the coach)

E) Stinky Pants was rebuked for his stance on the American judicial system by whom last week?

F) A report by the Financial Times Wednesday showed that what US automobile manufacturer is missing $1.4 Billion in. Their accounts?

G) Mount Spurr in what US state is showing indications that it may erupt in a volcano soon?

H) The 2025 Happiness Report Thursday named what country as the happiest on earth?

I) Who can forget the heroics of the Iowa women’s basketball teams of the past two years? Can you remember who they lost to in the title games in ’23 and ’24?

J) Stinky Pants wants to undo pardons issued by President Biden claiming they were not legal because Biden did what?

K) Quite the interesting drama in our neighbor Minnesota. First state senator Justin Eichorn filed a bill to make what a mental illness in Minnesota Monday?

L) Later that same day Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn was arrested for what crime in Bloomington, Minn.?

M) What ubiquitous mall clothing store has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 6 years?

N) Thanks to an Executive Order what is no longer forbidden in companies getting federal contracts?

O) What do Jackie Robinson and Bea Arthur have in common?

P) When was the first women’s national basketball tournament?

Q) What advertising transportation icon is 100 years old this year?

R) Six million pages of documents were declassified concerning what event that happened 62 years ago?

S) MAGAs in Arkansas have introduced a bill that would ban what for minors?

T) Let’s end with asking when the first men’s NCAA championship was held?

Americans have thrown away their liberty and prosperity more rapidly than anyone would have imagined. They’ve given up the foundational ideals of the United States, surrendered them to the Russia-backed Musk-Trump regime, and gotten less than nothing in return. – Michael McKay

Answers:

A) Social Security (get ready folks)

B) the Statue of Liberty

C) Tesla

D) 1956 where they lost to San Francisco in the national title game (SF was led by Bill Russell

E) Chief Justice John Roberts

F) Tesla

G) Alaska

H) Finland – the US is 24th

I) LSU in ’23 and South Carolina in ’24

J) Used an auto pen

K) “Trump Derangement Syndrome”

L) soliciting a minor for sex

M) Forever 21. Sounds like they may be forever done

N) Segregation

O) both of their WWII stories were disappeared by the administration in the push to purge what they call DEI stories. The Navajo Code Talkers were also caught in this purge

P) well the NCAA didn’t have one until 1991 (won by Tennessee) but (I believe) the AIAW held championships beginning in 1982 (won by Louisiana Tech)

Q) The Goodyear Blimp

R) The Kennedy Assassination – The Jeffery Epstein documents are still tightly locked up

S) Gender non-conforming haircuts

T) This is much clearer – March 27th, 1939 – played at Northwestern and won by Oregon over Ohio State

To protect the kids, Arkansas Republicans are proposing a bill to prohibit gender non-conforming….  haircuts.