OK, so I didn’t save a lot of interesting stuff this week, but I’ll give you a few things from the files:

Winners

Americans.  Whether you like or dislike Barack Obama, he is at least jumping in with both feet and starting to get to work.  Hopefully, the results will match the hype.

Hikers and other people enjoying recreation in Washington State.  The Washington Legislature has introduced a bill to require hunters under the age of 14 from hunting without a parent or other adult supervising them.  This is a response to the shooting of a hiker in Skagit County last August that resulted in the death of a 54-year-old woman hiking in the woods.  Of course, since the shooter was already 14, this wouldn’t have made any difference if it had been enacted at the time.  Perhaps the legislators will change the age to 16 or 18 before passing it, or they will pass this one and feel good for solving nothing.  Is there some reason teenagers need to be shooting animals in the woods anyway?  Is the recession that bad already?

Losers

Readers of a particular newspaper in Nigeria, who learned that reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him. I’m just glad that our police don’t find goats to charge with crimes when nothing else works. Our police just accuse the wrong people, then offer them plea bargains to expedite their cases.

OK, we will score no losers this week, since I had to reach too far out of Cascadia to find the story.

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