I'm glad to see news unrelated to health care today. The media was getting awfully one-dimensional.

Tonight the top 11 on American Idol sing Billboard's top songs. Can't wait to see Crystal, hope she has a good night. Casey too.

We're in the midst of a whopper of snow storm. It began with thundersnow around 3 pm and will continue until tomorrow.

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A new season of Dancing With the Stars begins tonight. An odd assortment of "celebrities" -- seems really a "B list" this year. I wish they gave the co-host job to Melissa instead of Brooke. "24" is also on.

"Nurse Jackie" is back with its second season tonight on Showtime. Edie Falco (formerly of the Sopranos)is just great, as is the whole show.

10 states are going to sue to prevent implementation of the Health Care bill. Colorado will be one of them, according to our ultra-conservative Attorney General. Their primary objection (ostensibly): the provision requiring people to buy insurance: [More...]

Did you catch the end of the Michigan State-Maryland game yesterday? Unbelievable. I now predict a Kentucky (original pick) - Syracuse (new pick to replace bounced Kansas) final with Kentucky (original pick) winning it all.

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The House is debating the health care bill. If you're a rules buff, you can follow along on the House twitter feed, where you'll see lots of references to things being "laid on the table," which always reminds me of Cream and "Badge":

Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car.

Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far.

And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table.

I wonder if anyone in the House has a kid who is married to Mabel. On a more substantive note, FDL is live-blogging the debate.

Update: There's a deal with Stupak. He'll hold a press conference at 4pm ET and announce he's voting for the bill. C-Span will stream live. Republicans on Twitter sound pissed, they're calling him a traitor.

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Exciting day yesterday. Bad day for me as my Gators lost in 2OT and my bracket lay in ruins at the end of the day.

We strive forward anyway. My picks today's day games - Siena, Mizzou, Texas A&M, Pitt, Xavier, Temple and Wisconsin. Those are my win picks. As betting propositions, I have different selections but that is too complicated to describe here.

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It starts today a little after 12 EST.

12:20 games - Florida v. BYU (Go Gators!), Old Dominion v. Notre Dame, Robert Morris v. Villanova.

2:30 games - Murray State v. Vandy, North Texas v. Kansas State, Sam Houston St. v. Baylor, St. Mary's v. Richmond.

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Sandra Bullock's perfect marriage may not be so perfect. (I'm always skeptical of those award speeches where the winner goes on and on about how great their spouse is.) It was just in January, at the Screen Actor Guild Awards, she said:

“And to my husband, Jesse, who works so hard all day, and you get dressed up in monkey suits, and you sit at a table with people you don’t know. And I leave you there and then you come back with, like, Morgan Freeman’s email. I don’t know how you do it. I love you so much, and you’re really hot. And I want you so much.”

Who's going home tonight on American Idol? (No spoilers please till it's aired on the West Coast.) I texted my vote last night to keep Crystal Bowersox and Casey James. They all pretty much butchered the Rolling Stones. They should have re-watched Adam Lambert last year performing Satisfaction.

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Remembering Teddy, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

It's Rolling Stones week for the final 12 on American Idol tonight.

A new Idol stage will be revealed and America’s Top 12 – Didi Benami, Crystal Bowersox, Lacey Brown, Lee Dewyze, Andrew Garcia, Casey James, Aaron Kelly, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, Paige Miles, Katie Stevens, and Tim Urban – will perform songs by The Rolling Stones.

It's 65 degrees here. The TL kid and I are firing up the barbecue to grill some steaks while we watch AI. The sun was so bright today it was 75 degrees inside when I got home -- I had to turn the air conditioning on to cool it down.

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I'm off to the jail in the foothills -- it's right before the Eisenhower tunnel. Should be a beautiful drive, I'm looking forward to it.

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