Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Taking it all in stride, after Lexington, Ky., mocked its selection by Men’s Health as the country’s least active city by staging a “Sedentary Parade.” Mayor Jim Gray rode on a motorized couch, with his feet up on a table, as residents looked on from lawn chairs.

Knitcraft, a high-end knitwear company in Winona, Minn., as sales of its black turtlenecks soared after Steve Jobs’s death. Jobs wore the turtlenecks almost every day.

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Job creation, after the Florida Legislature began considering a repeal of the state’s ban on “dwarf tossing,” a bar game in which patrons hurl dwarfs onto mattresses. “All [the ban] does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get,” said state Rep. Ritch Workman.

Bad week for:

True love, after Columbia University researchers found that single women consider overweight men more attractive if they are wealthy. For each 10 percent increase in body mass index, a single man must get a 2 percent raise in salary to stay in the same dating pool.

Big Ben, after a new report revealed that the iconic clock tower in London is leaning 0.26 degrees. That leaves the top out of alignment by some 18 inches, which is visible to the naked eye.

The Westboro Baptist Church, after the radical church said Steve Jobs was going to hell and called for a protest at his funeral. At the bottom of the church’s tweeted call for a protest, it said, “via Twitter for iPhone.” The church later explained that “God created the iPhone,” not Steve Jobs.