Weekend Update - June 28th

• We start out with this very clever techno-remix of Alaska's homeboy idiot Ted Stevens "A Series of Tubes," from YouTube.


• Arthur writes: I kind of heard some rumblings about how under-40 evangelical Christians are trending Obama and environment, as in "stewardship of the earth" Christianity instead of old testament, "stone your son if he be disobedient" kinds. But this stuns me. I honestly did not spot this angle on the tiff between James Dobson and Obama. (And here's a tremendous Times article on the subject.)


• Earth in crisis, food and water increasingly scarce, people freaking out. Should you join them? Mark Morford says we are doomed! Sort of.


• At a fundraiser yesterday in Newport Beach, California, John McCain said he relished his second-place status. "We are behind, we are the underdog,'' McCain says. "That's what I like to be.'' It seems to me that the very least we can do for John McCain is to work to help him stay exactly where he "likes to be".


• Gotta love the headline writers at Think Progress. John McCain going both ways for gays?


• "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." George Carlin is dead at 71. There will never be anyone like him.


• Guess who's sponsoring the Federal Marriage Amendment. This is when politics gets really funny. C'mon, just guess.