Things that are ********:
1. Geography in the NCAA bracket. That's how UCLA won 10 titles in 12 years in the 1960s - they had no competition in the west, waltzed into the Final Four every year, and only had to win 1 or 2 tough games, while all of the teams east of the Mississippi cannibalized each other. That was also before teams were seeded. The NCAA had gotten away from that for the very reasons that we're all now debating. What a f'ng crock.
2. Standard time. Read carefully, I didn't say Daylight Time, I said Standard time, which now encompasses about 4 1/2 months of the year, thereby making it something far different than "Standard". Just move the clocks ahead one hour permanently, instead of all this drama-queen 1-hour forward / 1-hour back ******** that was created when we were an agrarian society.
