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Wednesday, 19 March 2014

64 Thoughts You Have While Filling Out Your March Madness Bracket

You’ll be begging for a halftime that will never come.

1. Ugh there are so many teams. This is going to take me forever.

2. I have not watched a minute of college basketball this season.

3. I feel qualified to make picks, however, because I went to college, and I played basketball once.

4. Let's start with Duke. Duke is always good. They're like the Slytherin of college basketball.

5. OK, now that I have that out of the way, let's start at the top left. Can't do this willy-nilly.

6. I wish the team names were listed and not the just the school names. What if the school has a shitty mascot? I need to know that.

7. * hums “That's How I Beat Shaq” by Aaron Carter. *

8. I like Florida and I have to pick them because they're the Gators, and I love alligators.

9. VCU? That sounds like a venereal disease. Whatever, I'm picking them.

10. “UCLA Bruins” makes it sound like they're making beer, so that's an easy pick for me.

11. Well, my cousin went to Ohio State, so I have to choose them, right?

12. Syracuse! They wear orange. Orange is such an underrated color.

13. There's something edgy about choosing a 10-seed over a 7-seed. It makes you feel so alive!

14. I'm going with the Kansas Jayhawks. Also, did you know that Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake? Science, man!

15. I actually visited the University of Virginia. I didn't apply, but I had a nice Mexican meal while I was there.

16. I'm picking Memphis to win its first game because they're the Tigers, and tigers are cool.

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Bill Donohue Wants To March Under “Straight Is Great” Banner In NYC Pride Parade

The president of the Catholic League is challenging the organizers of the parade to include him after LGBT activists protested the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade for barring LGBT participants with pride flags and banners.

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Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League and a vocal opponent of LGBT rights, said Wednesday he wants to march in the 2014 New York City Pride Parade under a banner reading, “Straight is great.”

Donohue made the remarks during an interview with conservative talk show host Steve Malzberg, in which he criticized activists for protesting bans on LGBT groups marching in the New York and Boston St. Patrick's Day parades and corporate sponsors that withdrew their support of the events over the policies.

“Are they going to let me do it or not? I'm waiting to see what they want to say,” Donohue said, explaining the pride parade organizers require participants to carry LGBT signs. “All right, you can disagree with their rules, but that's their parade. Why don't they respect us when it comes to the St. Patrick's Day Parade?”

When reached by phone Wednesday night, organizers of the parade at Heritage of Pride Inc. said Donohue had not yet filled out a formal application to participate in the parade and that his request was made by email.

Britton Hogge, the organization's operations manager, told BuzzFeed a decision has not yet been made on permitting Donohue to march under the banner he proposed, but that they “will be issuing a statement probably sometime tomorrow,” he said.

This year's major St. Patrick's Day parades in New York and Boston were marked by the withdrawal of corporate sponsors and both the cities' mayors refusal to participate or march in the parades due to the ban on LGBT groups. In New York, Guinness dropped its sponsorship less than a day before the parade kicked off Monday morning.

In response, Donohue called for a boycott of the sponsors, including Guinness, Sam Adams, and Heineken.

The annual parade, which draws hundreds of thousands, will take place June 29.

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