Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Doing your civic duty, after a Michigan man who was at a polling place filling out his ballot collapsed and apparently died. His heart was restarted by CPR, and when he was revived, his first words were, “Did I vote?” He had.

Boosting British morale, after a new book by author Stuart Laycock, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To, found that Great Britain has invaded 90 percent of the 200 countries in the world at some point in its history.

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Planning your vacation to North Korea, after officials there indicated that the 105-story, remarkably ugly Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang might soon open, 23 years behind schedule. They said the hotel would “partially, probably” open for business in 2013.

Bad week for:

Donald Trump, who reacted to President Obama’s re-election by tweeting, “The world is laughing at us,” denying he won the popular vote, and calling for “revolution in this country.”

Practicing what you preach, after New Orleans traffic court Judge Robert Jones III was caught with a reflective license-plate cover on his car, preventing traffic cameras from photographing his plate. “I was given the car like that,” Jones told a reporter.

Vanity, after the highly unpopular former mayor of Flint, Mich., Don Williamson—who resigned in 2009 while facing a recall—installed an 8-foot bronze statue of himself outside his home, along with six bronze lions. “Someone is going to do something to that statue,” neighbor Ryan Duncan speculated.