Two good things happened yesterday, evidences of sanity after the extreme insanity of the shootings at Virginia Tech on Monday.

First, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on partial birth abortions. It's about time. Some credit is going to the new Bush appointees to the court. I'm not sure it would have been any different with Rehnquist and O'Connor still on the bench. Regardless--good move.

Then last night, Sanjayah got voted off of American Idol. In the grand scheme of things, this may not be quite as consequential as the Supreme Court decision. However, it is certainly more firmly in the American consciousness, however warped that may seem. The jokesters and teary-eyed teeny-boppers who speed-dialed for Sanjayah, in the end, couldn't undermine the minions who take Idol excruciatingly seriously.

There was cheering in our household when Sanjayah got the boot. I don't remember any of us talking about the partial-birth abortion ban.