OU goes to its first Final Four appearance since I was technically a co-op student at Apple, having been ignored and minimized by the sportswriters all year. Maybe it's not just a football thing.

I normally don't watch much college basketball because I don't enjoy it, and I never enjoy pro basketball (boring prima donnas). But this tournament has been a lot of fun, though I'm sure that has to do with OU winning. (I think the officials in this last game are going to attend the press conference to try to find more fouls to call.) I've even enjoyed some of the other games. Maybe I can expand my sports horizon.

By the way, if you see some sports sites talking about "March Mayhem" or anything other than "March Madness," it's because the NCAA claims a trademark on the term "March Madness" for college basketball, and has even sued Internet sites for using it without permission. Kind of ironic, since the NCAA more or less stole the phrase from the Illinois State Highschool Association's basketball championships.

I'm trying to make longer entries into stories instead of news items to keep the page more readable. This is my first look at DISH Network's "interactive" TV. Yeesh.

Ever wonder why there are so many reports of Afghan children knowing nothing but war and and killing? Well, of course, they've lived with it all their lives -- but they were also taught it using US-supplied textbooks. In the 1980s, the US Government explicitly ignored the constitutional prohibition of promoting any specific religion and made textbooks for Afghanistan that were full of fundamentalist Muslim tenets, talked of jihad against unbelievers, and taught to count with pictures of rifles and tanks.

Fundamentalism doesn't always turn out the way you'd like, of course, and now the US is trying to replace the textbooks with non-military ones -- but still teaching Muslim tenets. Somehow the people in charge think that spending US resources to teach religion in other countries is permissible.