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Does anyone else find it suspicious that the head of the NCAA men's tournament selection committee is the University of Virginia's athletic director? If Maryland doesn't get a bid I will be filing a formal protest

The Pi Press' "Sainted & Tainted" column is brilliant. Today's edition is particularly stunning in its display of inanity and weirdness. Here's my favorite entry:

Tainted: To the individual(s) who caused the African Grey Parrot to be removed from the HarMar Pet Store because they repeatedly accused the owner of abusing/mistreating the bird and would not accept the explanation that Smoky was under a vet's care. The vet has tried hormone treatments and dietary changes on the bird, but Smoky continues to periodically pull out his breast feathers for unknown reasons. You have caused my feathered friend to be taken from me and the many people who regularly stopped to see him. While you are to be commended for caring about him, it angers me that your tirades caused the bird to be removed.

If Smoky misses his visitors as much as we miss him, you have also done him a great disservice, for he now spends the day at home, alone.

KATHLEEN BALDWIN

Falcon Heights

I think Smoky was acting completely reasonable under the circumstances.

Posted by Paul Demko at March 11, 2006 10:54 AM

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