March Maddness

I would be so remiss if I let March Madness slip by without a mention.  Yeah, all my favorite teams are knocked out of the brackets already.   We are down to the final four teams: Villanova, Oklahoma, Syracuse, and University of North Carolina.  There is something enchanting about watching college basketball.  Maybe it is the idea of revisiting the excitement of youthful days of getting into games for free as college students during the regular season and hearing the crowd echo around the bleachers of an enclosed court.  Whatever it is, it remains a big event in homes across America. 

This year the idea of March Madness has been subdued in my particular household with all the Trump happenings and curious teenagers wanting to understand better how primary elections work, and what outrageous thing candidates (or their campaign managers) will do.  The Lewandowski incident actually incited a huge debate amongst the college crowd that I was with the other night.  Many of the young people didn't think that what he did was assault and thought the entire thing ludicrous and not worth airtime or an arrest/civil suit.  Others wondered how it would effect current abuse laws, would it make them stricter, or relax existing ones.  One or two people tried to explain how the simple act of grabbing another person's arm and pulling it is absolutely abuse.  However, if someone were about to get hit by a car, then it wouldn't be: they started pulling out so many exceptions.  Are the younger generations right?  Was it no big deal? 

There are so many other things to be thinking of and puzzling over.  The European Space Agency has proposed a moon village.  I wonder how long until they have fast food once the domiciles are set-up?  Will the inhabitants be as obese as those on earth?  What about the Siberian unicorns that popped up in the news as well?  They may not be as pretty with white hair and golden horns, but hey, a giant rhino-like unicorn with long single boney protrusion from its forehead definitely works too. 

Best wishes to everyone!