This week's happy news

• We have a carbon tax! Today is a happy day to live in British Columbia.
• Oil closed at $100.01 per barrel today; so much for "just a fluke". Maybe this will prompt thirteen more people to take the bus. Food will be more expensive, but maybe we don't have a right to fresh out-of-season fruit from another hemisphere.
• The house displayed some spine, even if the supreme court sold us out on spying.
• Kosovo declares independence. Why the hell not? Infinite secession is a potential cure for nationalism.
• The tide is beginning to turn against abusive end-user license agreements.
• The government is further expelled from the bedrooms of Texas.
• Scientology further restricts the availability of its crazy course materials. On the other hand, this stuff is high comedy.