No, not happy news like about crippled orphans being rescued by blind puppies (though that’s good, too). Not glurge.
But in the biblical flood of bad news, good news does occasionally bob to the surface and I’ve been saving up bits of it to brighten your day. So here goes:
- Rhode Island may defy the NDAA. (Tip o’ hat to JS.)
- The most important secret of a prosperous economy.
- Remember the homeless man with the golden voice? Well, so far, so good. (HT to SC)
- Obama (not intentionally, of course) might bring back the Constitution.
- Gaston Glock did an amazing thing.
- Speaking of homeless-but-talented, a homeless whiz kid is a semi-finalist in a national science competition, and the attention is helping her family.
- TSA may — may — apologize to some old ladies it abused. (Okay, I grant you it’s not much; but it’s something.)
- There was once a great pirate botanist. (Tip o’ hat to PT.)
- You don’t have to be a swashbuckling young man to perpetrate Outlaw acts of courage. (HT to MJR.)
A pirate botanist-there’s something Monty Python about that..
Loved that Glock story. Thanks. Kinda pissed me off that they say he was lucky. He produces the most reliable pistol in the world and remarkably people came to him. Brass balls are and success are never a matter of luck.
As for the secret to a prosperous economy, it philosophically goes against the grain of the Newt Obamney. Their egos are all that matter, not our genius.
Oh come on, if you’d transposed two words you could have had the beginning of a great lymeric and an excuse to use the word “phlebotomist”.