1st point Over the past year and a half. Everybody and their dog has been ripping the U.S. for it's "unilateral" insistence on disarming Iraq. While their intentions may seem reasonable, their anti-war jargon is just plain wrong. Unilateral by it's very defination implies one side. And for the record: Militarily, the action is tri-lateral. Their are officially about 30 countries that support the action. 4 of the 6 largest economies in the world are represented by the coalition of the willing. So, the anti-war crowd should really replace "unilateral" with "not multi-lateral enough for us" in their repertoire. But that would sound nearly as condemning would it?

2nd point Doing a 6-degrees to *insert college basketball team here* in the NCAA tourney has got be the easiest and most pointless investigative task in the history of wit. The tournament has a total of 6 rounds, thus any team in the bracket can be connected to the national champion by virtue of whom beat whom. Just for kicks I'll give you an few examples:

2002: Boston University
Boston lost to Cincinnati (1) who lost to UCLA (2) who then lost to Mizzou (3) who lost to Oklahoma (4) who lost to Indiana (5) who lost to Maryland (6) in the National championship game.

2000: Appalachian State
Appalachian lost to Ohio State(1) who lost to Miami (2) who then lost to Tulsa(3) who lost to North Carolina(4) who lost to Florida(5) who lost to Michigan State(6) in the National championship game.

so there you go, everything else is just gravy