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Phish announced more tour dates for this summer, including a stop over in Hartford, Conn. The Boston Globe is reporting that there’s talk of the band playing at Fenway. How decent would that be?… Amusing news out of a small Texas town this week. The Montague County Jail was recently shut down and renovated after the new sheriff discovered it was more like a frat house than a jail. An inmate blew the whistle, sending a letter to a local politician complaining that a female prison guard was visiting his cell late at night to bone him! Prisoners were doing drugs and screwing guards and other inmates at will! Maybe karma catches up with people because the guy who blew the whistle on the coolest jail ever had his name published in several news outlets and remains in the same jail with the same inmates who just had their cushy stays ruined. Hate to be in the shower with that guy … I’m not going to get into the whole the church is out of touch debate, but the Pope is currently in the middle of a 10-day tour of Africa and he reinforced the long-standing stance of anti-condoms to a continent that has some absurd 50 percent AIDS rate. Can we just call in the common-sense court on this one? … With all the big NFL news this week (Pats in pursuit of Julius Peppers, who would be a beast in a New England uniform), it was easy to overlook a minor move by the Washington Redskins, who resigned kicker Shaun Suishamto a 1-year, 1.01-million contract. Suisham was THE WORST KICKER IN THE LEAGUE LAST YEAR, only hitting 72 percent of field goals. In summary, the Redskins paid more than $400,000 over the league minimum for the worst kicker in the game. Wonder why they suck so bad … I will never pick Arizona to win another NCAA Tournament game again. They make it every year and I always pick them towin one, maybe two games, and they always disappoint. Never again. Same with Duke. Sure, the school has a No. 2 seed, but does anyone really see Duke winning more than two games? … Michael Jordan made his first return to the NBA 14 years ago today, wearing No. 45 and scoring 19 points for the Bulls. Chicago went on to win three more titles after Jordan’s return. Did you know that Jordan also scored 19 points in his first game with Washington? On a side note, Magic Johnson also scored 19 points in his coming-out-of-retirement game in June 1996. … Happy 54th birthday to Bruce Willis. Die Hard rules! … … Chapter 5 of Decent Community’s They Don’t Make Movies Like They Used To: The Goonies, Stripes and Back to the Future Part II.