Monday June 19, 2006

(1) Stanley Cup Finals, Game 7. Edmonton at Carolina. Good stuff.

(2) Slate picks apart the 8000th incidence of media hysteria this year.

(3) Current TV, a little-known network that was started by none other than Internet-inventor Al Gore as an off-the-wall, we’ll-put-anything-you-film-on-the-air, allegedly-21st-century news channel has an animated news satire bit called SuperNews. It started out as a one-note Bush-basher vehicle, but then … it actually started getting funny. Sometimes. (Clearly, Gore is not on the writing team.) The two best: “Iran: Deal or No Deal” and “The Great Immigration Debate of 1621.”

(4) If you’re going to advocate hanging the Ten Commandments in courthouses … know more than three of them. Stephen Colbert skewers Rep. Westmoreland.

(5) While a bit more extreme than I would be willing to go, one of my favorite bloggers hammers home a very important point: the immigration debate would be far different if the illegals were white. Does anyone really care to debate this point? Can some explain how Latinos are unraveling the fabric of our society? They are working and contributing to Social Security (insert obligatory libertarian rant about how government pensions are an illegal and immoral pyramid scheme here). They’re learning English faster than previous groups of immigrants. Legalize anyone who wants to work here as long as they actually work and be done with the over-the-top hand-wringing.

UPDATE (11pm): ‘CANES WIN THE CUP! It’s the first professional sports championship for one of my adopted home states. The Stanley Cup is going down to Tobacco Road, of all places. (Hey, it can’t be weirder than Tampa, which is where it went when the Lightning won it all two years ago.) Cam Ward, Carolina’s goalie (a rookie, no less!), wins the Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs. Outstanding hockey game. Cue the confetti for the parade down Hillsborough Street. . . .

Wait: In ACC basketball country?

Raleigh Frickin’ North Carolina!

As for Cleveland? Nah. Never.