More From The News

It's been quite a week for wonderful news headlines. Let's start with a caring thief...

• Pa. man tells thief he's homeless, gets stuff back

Compassion can make a difference. But I'm amazed that a homeless man would have anything the thief would want in the first place.

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Then we travel across the pond to one of my favorite places...

• Spain says 'Adios' to smoking in bars, cafes

Quite a change for one of the smokiest countries I have ever visited. I can't imagine what the smokers of Spain are thinking about it. It was bad enough when we did it here in Minnesota.

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This one is another in the long line of stretches of the imagination and human knowledge that shows up on a regular basis these days...

• Astronomers say they've found oldest galaxy so far

I loved the last two words: so far. The numbers are so great that they might as well say it was a couple hundred gazillion light years away.

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And finally...

• Swiss archaeologists find 5,000-year-old door

The only response I could think of: "Now all we need is a hole in a 5,000-year-old wall to put it on."