Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Starting that diet, after a new airline, Samoa Air, began charging passengers by the pound. Since heavier passengers use up more fuel, said CEO Chris Langton, “there is no doubt in my mind that this is the concept of the future.”

Bargain hunters, after a typo in a Macy’s catalog resulted in a $1,500 necklace being priced at just $47. Dozens of customers snapped up the 14-karat gold and sterling silver necklace at stores before the department store took it off sale.

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Women, after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he was considering drafting 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner, collegiate women’s basketball’s most dominating player. “Right now, I’d lean toward yes, just to see if she can [play in the NBA],” Cuban said.

Bad week for:

Parenting, after two moms had a fistfight at an Easter egg hunt in Seattle when one mom pushed the other’s kid out of the way so her own kid could reach the eggs first. One mom got a black eye.

Sanity, after a new poll found that 30 percent of Americans believe that a “secretive power elite” is conspiring to rule the world, and 15 percent believe the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to TV broadcasts.

Walmart shoppers, after a Pennsylvania man was charged with whipping out a handgun, firing several shots, and killing a deer he spotted in a Walmart parking lot. After arresting Arcangelo Bianco Jr., a wildlife officer conceded that “it was the nicest buck I’ve seen taken in Indiana County.”