Always refreshing to wake up and see Karl Rove on television - or nauseating, maybe? He was of course on Fox 'n Friends, with everyone's favorite playing dumb, highly educated mother (Gretchen Carlson), promoting his new book.

This is where I am hoping someone can do me a favor. Take a look at Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. When I first saw the cover, it immediately struck me that it looks exactly like a well-known book I once read, about blacks fighting for a place in society and within their own race. He stole it. Only I can't remember the name of the book or its author. Anyone have any ideas?

In other sports news:
- Sports: The Pac-10 Tournament starts today in LA. This time last year I was hoping a quick Southwest flight down there for what turned out to be an awesome few days of basketball and listening to Tim Floyd berate officials. Remember having a conversation with someone about a guy named Renardo Sidney and the cost it would take to bring him to your program. Turns out, after pulling his commitment from USC, it cost Miss. State one year, nine games and $19K.
- Sports: UConn will likely spend the NCAA tournament practicing for NIT games. St. Johns pounded the Huskies through the Madison Square Garden floor Tuesday to knock UConn out of the first round of the Big East tournament.
- Sports: Another report that Ernie Kent has been fired at Oregon. The Dean of Pac-10 coaches is in his 13th season, but has seen the Ducks finished 10th and 9th in the last two seasons of Pac-10 play.

Now in other news:

• This is a really bad clip for Meg Whitman, who is running for governor in California.
• Yesterday, now former Rep. Eric Massa went on the Glenn Beck Program. All you need to know about it is that Beck himself apologized to his audience at the end, for wasting an hour of their time. From Politico: Massa admitted to groping and tickling at least one staffer but insisted that he did 'nothing sexual' -- just hours after it was reported that he's been accused of having inappropriate physical contact with at least four male subordinates, including one intern.
  This is just a clip of what the whole thing was like.
• One of the major stories hitting news today is the chasm between the White House and the Supreme Court. It obviously kicked off with Obama taking a shot at them during the State of the Union and, as the story says, Chief Justice John Roberts had some words for that. Interestingly, this all happens the week after an erroneous rumor was circulated, saying that Roberts was going to retire. He would would of course die, literally, before allowing Obama to fill his seat.
• Bank of America has changed its debit card overdraft fee policy.

Finally, if you have like five minutes to dedicate just to flipping through this website, do it. I think I've linked it before, but a friend of mine is doing a screening of the movie, Crude, which reminded me of it. The devastating things Chevron has been involved in, not just pollution, but cold-blooded murder, around the world are painful to read about.

And one more interesting thing that I picked up from today's paper (people actually still read the real newspaper, did you know that?): 48% of the children born in the U.S. in 2008 were born to minorities in 2008. I know it seems weird that 2008 is in that sentence twice, but it means the parents were minorities in '08. They may no longer be that. Demographers believe 2010 may be the year more minority children are born, which begs the question: who even counts as a minority these days?