So today I received the news alert that Obama has appointed this man named Steven Chu, the 1997 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, as the new Energy Secretary.
It's encouraging to see these kinds of changes taking place. Bush would always just appoint his friends and cronies, people who were completely unqualified for the posts in which he placed them. I am so heartened by the prospect of having people in key positions who actually have the right to fill them by virtue of their knowledge of the very subjects on which they are ordained to authority. It's refreshing is what it is.