You�re probably wondering what the heck this tiny, unreadable bracket is. Click here to see a normal-size version.

Last year, during the Final Four, the New York Times came out with a political/cultural version of the NCAA tournament. We were so impressed that we clipped the piece and vowed to blog about it at a later date.

Now is that time. We tweaked the idea a bit � we�re not witty enough to name the regionals � but the overall flavor is culture, sports, politics, and current events. The NYT broke split up their sectionals into politics and culture and the like, but we mixed them all together because a first round matchup between 3rd seeded Gay Marriage and 14th seeded Tim Hardaway is too rich to pass up.

We thought the Times assigning God as a No. 2 seed was awesome irony (and you thought UCLA felt snubbed?), so we kept that. A few featured matchups:

8 Barry Obama vs. 9 Hillary Clinton
6 ESPN vs. 11 Jason Whitlock
8 Kevin Durant vs. 9 Greg Oden
4 Making it Rain vs. 13 Pacman Jones

Many, many thanks to the commenter known as �G-Man’ for his amazing work on all the art. Further proof that there are some good people trolling around the net – can you believe he turned down our offer of $72.39 (grand total of cash we�ve made off this site through google adsense)?

Feel free to disagree with our No. 1 seeds:

Tom Brady�s Out of Wedlock baby (overall top seed)
Antonella Barba
Gilbert Arenas
Jessica Biel�s ass

We didn�t do a �last four out� but they probably would have been Al Gore, Syracuse, Bridget Moynahan, and Dick Vitale. Enjoy!