The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Several weeks ago the Casper Star-Trib came out with a new feature on the Saturday editorial page. It's called THUMBS UP or THUMBS DOWN. They select five items weekly of things that happened in Wyoming. I like it so I decided to try my own version. I was going to use UPPERS and DOWNERS but I felt there may be some illegal pharmaceutical implications with those categories. I also considered BUMMER (omitting DUDE) but couldn't think of an opposite for the word. I finally decided to use GOOD, BAD, and UGLY with the right to use "very" or "extra" or "extraordinarily" in front of any of them. The Star-Trib limits themselves to five item each time so I will shoot for that number.
GOOD-Major League Baseball held its Breast Cancer Awareness Day yesterday. Players used pink bats, sweat bands, etc., and each player had the pink ribbon on his uniform. The soccer teams (both boys and girls) from the two local high schools had a "We're rivals but are together on this" promotion for their first soccer meeting last month. The teams from NC wore pink jerseys while the KW teams had pink numbers on their white jerseys. The Mountain West Conference BB teams (men and women) had a day last winter. The male coaches wore pink ties and shirts while the women coaches wore pink blouses. They also modified some of the uniforms. BAD-Obama administration closing Gitmo without a plan. Forgive me-I think I just agreed with Dick Cheney.
GOOD & BAD-The new adminstration is trying to do everything in the first 6 weeks. Slow down. Fix the economy and bring the troops home for starters. Make sure health care is done right the first time. It will be costly if implemented.
BAD-Today the US Postal Service raised the price of a stamp by two cents. I remember penny post cards and five cent stamps. The raises are happening too often. Maybe they need to go Chapter XI or close some small post offices or branches or something. Maybe some of the bailout money should have gone to the USPS.
UGLY-Wyoming's lone US Congresswomen Republican Cynthia Lummis reports that she is shocked that politics is partisan in Washington, DC. She claims no one pays any attention to her party. It's called being the "minority" party, Cynthia. She is a former member of the most conservative, Republican legislature in the country and there was no partisanship there? Right. Yes, she's blonde.