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From our guest blogger, Catherine Kozub , comes a word on March Madness: You may recall that it's almost one year since Don Imus uttered his idiotic comments . (Editor's note: Imus is back on the air, free to slur again from the studios of WABC in New York.) The Rutgers'women's team will be playing tomorrow night for a spot in the Final Four. Once again, like most women's college hoops, the game can only be seen if you have cable television. (It will be aired on ESPN.) I suppose the good thing about women not having the same opportunity as men for earning a lot of dollars in basketball is that they are more likely to stay in college and earn their degrees than the top male players. I'll admit that early in the NCAA tournament many of the women's games are kind of boring compared to the men's games because scores are more uneven; I think that this is because there are not as many women competing in the sport as men. Nonetheless, as each stage of the...

Steve Capus , president of NBC News, is currently on "Hardball," explaining to guest host David Gregory why MSNBC has decided to drop, for good, its simulcast of "Imus in the Morning." UPDATE Looking truly tortured, MSNBC's president (also president of the entire NBC News division) demonstrated the sort of anguished confusion that is becoming quite la mode these days among the upper ranks of the dominant culture when a light is shined on ideas about blacks and women that apparently continue to enjoy a sort of smirking acceptance in otherwise polite company. It was through conversations with "trusted employees," Capus said, that he came to the conclusion "that I had to make this call." Among those "trusted employees" is Al Roker , the beloved weatherman of the "Today" show, who blogged on MSNBC's own Web site that Imus had to go . Another reason for the change from suspension to firing, Capus explained, was yesterday...

At the risk of being called a humorless feminist (a taunt her readers know to be patently untrue, this blog being a veritable online whoopie-cushion -- right?), your blogstress has used her privileges at TAPPED, the Weblog of The American Prospect Online , to call for the firing of Don Imus , host of the obnoxious radio show, "Imus in the Morning," from the schedule of WFAN and MSNBC. Whether you agree or disagree, your écrivaine invites you to comment by clicking here . Your cybercribe also urges you to peruse the posts of her sibling bloggers, Brother Sam Rosenfeld and Sister J. Goodrich .