Grad School/ Aqua Teen

So, I know I said this wasn't a place for me to personally vent or celebrate. But I thought I would brag about this since I just found out:
I GOT ACCEPTED TO MY FIRST GRAD SCHOOL!!!
yep. I know its early, but I guess they are quick at the University of Nebraska. That is a pretty good school. Definetely not one of the ones I thought I would get into. So that is awesome. We will see what happens in the coming weeks. But now I'm just interested. I am in at least one program, so now its just a picking my favorite kind of thing.

Secondly. Listen, I don't know if anyone has heard about this whole Boston Harbor terrorist scare?
If you haven't, read the article. Go research it. Now, this is really strange, because before I heard about the Aqua Teen connection, I remember watching MSNBC as the 'story' was breaking--The mayor came out and said something like "Its a hoax, and its not funny." --I remember seeing this on the screen, but not really knowing much else about the story (we were eating at Buffalo Wild Wings), and saying to Emily something about how things are always funny when someone says "its not funny". Because obviously if it wasn't funny you wouldn't have to point it out. Anyway, this is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. These guys are going to probably get thrown in jail for their lives because as of September 12, 2001, we are a society of fear. You see these little creatures (mooninites) on flashing signs flipping people off, and you think "Oh, those are bombs"?! I mean, what kind of paranoid mindset are you in when you think any flashing sign that you don't recognize is some kind of terrorist plot? They SHUT DOWN Boston Harbor!?
The irony of all of it is that if one of the homeland security officials would have brought their teenage son or daughter along in some sort of 'take your child to work' day ceremony, none of this would have happened. The kid would have said "Mom/Dad, thats just Ignignok. Its on Adult Swim. Their just postmodern cartoonists with postmodern marketing ideas." On second thought, no, I'm sure the parent would have just said "Shut up, this is important business. You can't trust anyone or anything in the world we live in."
I mean, I don't know. Am I insane about this? I understand there were a lot of misunderstandings. I understand that these guys who did it are, for some reason, not worried about their future. (I would be scared shitless! They are probably fucked for the rest of their lives.) But now that all of this information is out...they were just marketing in a creative, if bizarre, way...they were just FLASHING SIGNS...etc etc. Why can't they just be like 'whoops! Sorry about that everyone, we just wanted to play it safe.' ? No. Instead they have to arrest these guys on felony charges. Instead you hear things from the Massuchusets (sp?) homeland security demanding that Turner Broadcasting pay for all the costs of the investigation. I heard some government worker say something like "This was just tasteless marketing, and Turner Broadcasting should be held accountable for everything that happened."
Am I out of my mind or is this just funny? Not the prank, not the marketing, that was just what it was, and it is truly unfortunate that people were scared about terrorism and stuff. But isn't it funny that in retrospect we can't just laugh and say, 'alright guys, you had your fun, now go home. sorry about the mix up.' No, we have to continue taking it so fucking serious. I don't know. Am I nuts?