Good week, Bad Week

Good week for:

People who are sick of Disney World, after Pakistan revealed it was planning to build a $30 million amusement park and zoo in Abbottabad, the town where Osama bin Laden hid out.

Ambitious stoners, after state authorities in Washington announced they were seeking a $100,000-a-year “marijuana consultant” who knows how the recently legalized drug is best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged, and cooked into brownies.

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Personal liberty, after an Icelandic 15-year-old who has been called, for all official purposes, “Girl,” won a court battle to keep her given name, Blaer. Iceland’s government had refused to recognize the name Blaer—which means “light breeze’’—because it wasn’t on the country’s list of 1,853 approved girls’ names.

Bad week for:

Angering the poltergeists, after a power outage darkened part of New Orleans’s Superdome during the Super Bowl, causing a 34-minute delay in the game. Some locals said the stadium is cursed because it was built on the site of a 19th-century cemetery.

The Greensboro, N.C., News & Record, which announced its takeover by billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a front-page story headlined, “Buffet media buys paper.” In his apology, the mortified editor wrote, “A buffet involves food. The new owner is Buffett.”

Donald Trump, who sued Bill Maher for $5 million. The comedian had vowed to give that sum to charity if Trump, an adamant “birther,” could prove he was not the “spawn of an orangutan.” “That was not a joke,’’ Trump fumed. “That was venom.”