I think the only thing I learned in the news this week is that being Amish is kind of awesome (it is also, as mass media relentlessly reminds us, very, very simple). It seems like the Amish have the right idea; they realize there's no big payoff in life and each day is what it is. It's okay to be blissfully ignorant of the immaculately perveted instant messsages between a lawmaker and his college student underling which gets explained away as a "prank gone awry" when changing the political affiliation of the disgraced politician doesn't work. It is okay to be unaware of this.
Have a good weekend, where in America regular people get the day off work because in 1492 a man's "discovery" began the ruthless, bloody conquest of North America. Happy Columbus Day!
