Week 12 of the 2010 calendar went by as you might have expected...with stuff going down. You had the first four days of the NCAA tournaments, some kick-ass TV shows premiering or returning, a reality TV star getting hammered for dumping her recently award winning, quite beloved actress of a wife, the nation's capital preparing for what could be the biggest health care reform in the nation since LBJ was Commander-in-Chief, and Jon Stewart performing probably his finest fifteen minutes ever, and much more. Here are my picks for the best of those best:
Video of the Week: Jon Stewart Calling Out Glenn Beck on His Show
Glenn Beck is one of the biggest political commentators today, with a TV show that is one of the most watched in all of cable news. But as you may know, he has said a few things that may be a little puzzling, such as saying that progressivism (of all things) is ruining the United States. Well, on Thursday in a segment that ran an uninterrupted fifteen minutes, Stewart decided on not only criticizing most of Glenn Beck's beliefs, but also doing it in while parodying Beck's show. What followed may be one of Stewart's best segments in a while. Here's the first part of the clip:
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And now here's the second part of the clip:
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Simply amazing. From the bit about Bert being Hitler to those dramatic pauses, Stewart not only did a good job of mocking the man that is Glenn Beck as well as show how ridiculous some of his remarks have him. Unfortunately, most of Beck and probably Beck and him self will ignore this or not watch it at all, so he's just preaching to the choir. Still, though, it was pretty funny.
Stories of the Week:
-The Actual Story of the Week: We Could Be Hours Away From the Health Care Bill Passing
You read it right. In a matter of hours, one of the President's most wanted reforms could be passed. The biggest moment of Obama's presidency could happen. The whole debate could be over and we will not hear about another reform for a few years. Or it could fail, but there are many reports that they Democrats will get enough votes. Either way, there will be some kind of history in the making tomorrow.
-The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Sandra Bullock and Husband Jessee James Split
Why you ask? Apparently, it was because James was having an affair with THIS CHICK. All I can say it, she must have done something to James that made his eyes roll back to his head, 'cause I don't have an explanation for anything other than that.
Person of the Week: Your Lazy Ass
for being able to skip or not doing your work and/or school to watch the NCAA tournament and not regretting it hours later. Look, while the first two days of the tourney is one of the best days on the sports calendar, it hasn't relatively been that great of a thing to watch for twelve hours. Most of the games the past few years have either been decided by the end of the first half, or just plain dull. Well, not this year. Not this year at all.
In these early rounds of the tournament, there has been:
- Two overtime games and one double overtime game
- A combined nine games go down to the last possession
- Two eleven seeds (Washington and Old Dominion) beating a six seed (both of them had to do it in with a last second shot)
- A twelve seed (the Ivy League's Cornell, if you believe it!) beating a five seed
- A thirteen seed (the Ohio Valley's Murray State) beat a four seed in a buzzer beater jumpshot
- A fourteen seed (the MAC's Ohio, who two weeks ago today was ranked ninth in the conference before beating all of the team ranked ahead of them in the conference tournament to get the berth to the Big Dance in the first place) beating a three seed
- A fifteen seed (the NEC's Robert Morris) beating a two seed for most of the game until they lost in overtime
- More double digits seed winning in one round than in all of last year's tourney
- Power conferences like the Big East and the ACC seeing it's top powers fall left and right while weaks conferences like the Pac-10 and mid major conferences like the WCC, Missouri Valley and the Ivy League winning.
AND THAT'S JUST THE FIRST TWO DAYS! You also had three of those double digit seeds (Cornell, Washington and the WCC's Saint Mary's) advancing to the Sweet Sixteen, and the overall #1 seed and powerhouse Kansas losing in the second round to underdog Northern Iowa, who has never been past the first round in a tournament before, and four more last possession games in the second round.
So, yes, it might have seen pointless to spend two workdays and your weekend watching forty-eight games with colleges that you probably never went to. But the fact that 1/3rd of those forty eight games were pretty entertaining, it really shouldn't really have been punished.
And that's the way it is! Enjoy the next seven days, everyone!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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