Good News for Today

This morning I look in the usual places for hints of good news and not surprisingly found some. Note this headline form the Melbourne (Australia) Morning Sun: “A COMPUTER engineer died after tying himself naked to a tree with a cord wrapped around his penis, an inquest heard.” (1) The guy got drunk, made himself a pair of plastic rope handcuffs, tied a piece of cord around his willy, got naked, tied himself to a tree in what has been described as a “bondage game with the tree”, and the TREE WON.
This is all the proof anyone needs that Natural Selection is still at work, cleaning out the gene pool. I suppose the good news here is that someone as (try not to be too judgmental Woody), what the hell, moronic as that is no longer around to influence others. He may have done good works as well, but we will never know it.
As for other good news, a few items of interest:surveys indicate people still participate in Reality Shows and actually believe that they are real; more contestants line up for beauty contests and the stock market is wavering but not yet collapsing.
All but buried in the foreign and domestic news, including the conservative outlets, is some really good news: the troop drawdown in Iraq is on track to be completed in the next 12 months, going from 160k to 50k.
The gulf oil well that spilled an estimated 200 million gallons (range is 93 million to 400 million) as of today has been killed. And the really good news is that more than 75% or the oil has disappeared! WOW! GONE! So we only have to worry about 50 million gallons. Man, am I relieved.
Image: Jacopo de' Barbari (Print made by); The three prisoners: www.britishmuseum.org/.../AN00443582_001_l.jpg
1. Source: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/man-dies-after-bondage-game-with-tree-fails/story-e6frfhk6-1225903503810