Here’s a brief list of good things that happened this week, for anyone who missed them:
- Taylor Hicks won American Idol, thus partially restoring my faith in what I thought was a bloated, vain, idle, lazy, visible-rib-cage-obsessed population. Now if they can just make it equally fashionable to be an activist liberal I’ll be completely happy.
- Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were convicted and face life in prison.
- I discovered the song “Waiting For The Siren’s Call” by New Order. I’m a bit puzzled as to exactly how I missed it all this time, but there you go.
- I ran four miles and that weird eye twitch thing didn’t happen.
- A House panel voted to enforce strict net neutrality standards on ISPs. For those of who unfamiliar with the whole debacle, this essentially means your ISP can’t make you (or the producers of the websites you surf) pay extra for “fast lanes” on the internet. It also means parity access for anyone willing to pay the monthly fees we’re all used to. ~