Um, Methinks You Have It Bass-Ackwards, Freep

This snippet appears in a Winnipeg Free Press summary of the just-unveiled budget:

The troubled finances of Canada's newest national museum won't be bailed out by the federal government. That's the bad news. The good news is the museum isn't being asked to bear any of the weight of the $5.2 billion cuts across government departments.

Actually, when it comes to a misbegotten money pit devoted to an ideal that in our time has been twisted, perverted and hijacked by bad guys, there is no good news. Not as long as it remains up and running, that is.