Bad week for:

Tingling, with reports that the former head of Vermont’s Air National Guard was forced to retire because he used an F-16 to pursue an extramarital affair. Col. Thomas Jackman used the supersonic fighter jet to fly to Washington, D.C., to see a woman who, he said in a gushing email, “always makes me smile (and tingle...).” Astronauts, with the discovery of unknown strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the toilets of the International Space Station. NASA said the bugs are “not an active threat” but need to be monitored. Convenience, after the residents of two retirement villages in Brisbane, Australia, protested plans to build a crematorium adjacent to their facilities. “We all know we are going to go at some time or other,” said resident Ron Wells, “but we don’t want to be reminded on a daily basis every time we go shopping.”