Your moment of karma

 Things weirdly symbiotic are No. 1 with a bullet this week, or so it seems. A couple of examples come to mind, the latter perhaps less symbiosis than something else.

First off, it's weirdly symbiotic how much the storylines of  the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final have exactly mirrored one another, and never more so than this weekend.

In the NBA, the Boston Celtics won the first three games and shoved the Dallas Mavericks to the precipice, only to the Mavs crush the C's by 38 points in Game 4 -- yes, you read that right -- to force the series back to Boston.

In the NHL, meanwhile, the Florida Panthers won the first three games and shoved the Edmonton Oilers to the precipice, only to have the Oilers crush the Panthers 8-1 in Game 4 -- yes, you read that right -- to force the series back to Florida.

Weird, right?

But not as significant as a couple of other things that happened this week.

In Newtown, Conn., the 2024 graduating class from Newtown High School turned their tassels, on a day far more freighted than usual. That class, see, was missing 20 members. They were all gunned down a dozen years ago by a madman who burst into Sandy Hook Elementary and killed 28 people in a matter of minutes -- 20 of them children between the ages of 6 and 7 who would have been turning their tassels with their classmates if this country were a less mad place itself.

At the graduation ceremony, graduates wore green-and-white ribbons in their memory. And everyone listened as the names of the lost 20 were read out.

Meanwhile ...

Meanwhile, in Texas, another madman got his.

Alex Jones, the ranting cuckoo who was the voice of the extremist right-wing media vehicle Infowars, was ordered by a judge to liquidate all his personal assets in order to pay the parents of the Sandy Hook victims $1 billion in damages. They were awarded those damages after Jones tormented them for years, claiming they were all "crisis actors" and their children weren't dead at all.

Imagine losing your child in the worst possible way, and then have to listen to some vile creature like Alex Jones call you a liar.

Now imagine all those names being read out at the Newtown graduation ceremony, in the same week the man who told America all those names were just cosplay was punished for doing so. 

No, symbiosis probably isn't the right word for that.

But karma sure as hell is.