Oh it was a fine day in so many ways. So if you want to put a cherry on top and go to sleep with a smile, read this column by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post.

DeLay, because he’s such a ruthlessly effective bully, has been as responsible as anyone for pushing his party to the end of the political spectrum previously reserved for the anti-everything, loony-bin far right. His comeuppance is an occasion to remind ourselves just what a long, strange trip it’s been.