Hate Hate Hate

Slate has a feature today on NCAA tournament teams to hate, and to no one's surprise a couple of ACC teams make the list. And naturally, I have a couple of comments:

First of all, Josh Levin does put in a quality effort in Duke mocking -- for a Brown grad. A fundamental mention of the whiny attitude, appropriate NBA failure and Wojciechowski mockery, and good find in the J. J. Redick poetry. Of course, true emnity doesn't set in until those tobacco-whores try to legislate you out of existence and your football rivalry is disbanded for being to fierce, but we'll let that slide in this case. Just remember, it's not that we don't want you to hate Duke. We've just been doing it for 180 years longer than you have. We're here to help you take that emnity to the next level.

As for the Carolina entry, I'm mildly insulted. We only rated an insult from Kansas? Is there no one at Slate from an ACC school? There are seven fine institutions full up people still bitching about Four Corners, ref favoritism, the attractiveness of our alumni, and a whole host of other minor annoyances. We're hard at work training another three. And you had to go to Kansas? You're just not trying, folks.