I picked the middle school across the street from my house to win the NCAA tournament, and my March Madness bracket still probably looks better than yours. In one of the most understated headlines of all time, FiveThirtyEight explains: This Year’s Sweet 16 Is Downright Odd. (It’s one thing for underdogs to win games. But this year, underdogs are crushing teams.)

+ DC councilman apologizes for promoting conspiracy theory that weather is controlled by Jews. (If that were true, I would have struck this guy with lightning by now.)

+ The bidet is making a comeback.

+ “In a case reminiscent of a Kafka novel, a Romanian court has ruled that a 63-year-old man is dead despite what would appear to be convincing evidence to the contrary: the man himself appearing alive and well in court.”