Good News, Bad News

Good News:

The Republicans realized that stamping their feet and holding their breath wasn't going to make the Democrats, the President, or, you know, Americans stop talking about financial regulation reform, and have acquiesced to allowing the rest of us to get on with it.  Thanks.  Really.  

Bad News: 

That oil rig that sank with the well still spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico?  

Still spewing, still a big fucking problem.  

Another week of this and this spill is going to make Exxon-Valdez its bitch.

Good News:

 Stephen Hawking has a new special on the Discovery channel about the possibility, or in his opinion, the near certainty of life elsewhere in the solar system.  As with everything Stephen Hawking has ever written, it is at once informative and detailed as well as perfectly comprehendible to even a 5th grader.  His conclusion is that we might turn out to be the small fish in a big ocean, and maybe it's best not to go looking for the big fish.  

Bad News:

South Park was censored by Comedy Central last week because of the cartoon's cartoon depiction of the Prophet Mohammad.  There very few words that one can use to describe how epically awful and lame this is.  I mean, if you can air this, why can't we have a little fun at the expense of fundamentalists muslims?

Good News:

Steve Jobs is out to rid the world of Flash.  He may not hold a funeral for it on stage this year, but he's out to kill it.  Just like he killed the floppy drive and and all the proprietary cables everyone was suffering through before he forced USB down everyone's throats.  It's a beautiful thing.  

Speaking of beautiful things, here's the launch of Apollo 11 in super slow motion and extremely high definition: