Monday digest

- Even the most grumpy, curmudgeonly member of Leafs Nation out there can't read this story and not hope the Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup. Mrs. H even got a little teary-eyed reading it over wings tonight at the Conroy Pub, which, I must say, are arguably the best in town.

- The Toronto Star's film reviewer says Michael Moore's new "documentary" Sicko would be pretty good if Moore wasn't so full of shit.

- Why is "An Inconvenient Truth" being shown in gym class? More to the point, do you think that high school teachers are following Gore up with, oh, say, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" - in the interests of presenting both sides of an issue, of course?

- Jimmy Carter has officially lost all credibility as an elder statesman with his recent outburst. Breaking the long-held taboo of former Presidents criticizing the current occupant of the White House is nothing new for the man from Plains, but what's really classless is how he took Tony Blair to task by calling him "abominable, loyal, blind, and apparently, subservient". You'd think Carter of all people would appreciate allowing Blair a dignified ride into the sunset.

A very poor display.

- Zimbabwe's Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe is spending the equivalent of 2 million English pounds to build a museum dedicated to himself. This comes amid 80% unemployment, massive food shortages, and guilt trips by do-gooding Western one-worlders who all too often overlook corruption like this and lay blame for Africa's condition solely at the feet of the capitalist First World.

I'm not buying it.