So will the United States, and the world, decide that it has had too much of this not particularly good thing?
This is a particularly good thing because, with two of the four major American professional sports not operating at the moment, we need all the diversion we can get.
That's particularly good thing, Christine Haughney writes, for the 36-year-old left-leaning magazine, which has a circulation of just over 200,000 and a business model that is partly dependent on its readers' contributions.
So many of them are competing for most unlikely hero that it is hard to pick one, but, as Les Carpenter writes on Yahoo.com, they all have a little bit of Romo in them, and that is a particularly good thing.
In the realm of commissions, this work ethic is a particularly good thing, since it takes a lot of work to get some composers to write for this unfamiliar instrument.
It was a particularly good thing to be about in the 1990's, a decade in which the economic folk tales were of astronomical success (or, by the end, vertiginous falls), but the broad reality was quite different: for Americans in the middle of the wage scale, real earnings, adjusted for inflation, declined or held flat for much of the decade.
In general, reservations in terms of outcomes are not a particularly good thing.
We are playing for second place now, which is not a particularly good thing to be saying at this stage of the season.
A bunch of far-right activists marauding around an enclosed underground space in search of their definition of "scum" obviously doesn't sound like a particularly good thing.
"Any time you have large campaign expenditures in which nobody knows who's funding them that's not a particularly good thing for democracy," says Sunlight Foundation senior fellow Lee Drutman, who has tracked "dark money" in the 2012 campaign.
