After a few weeks of bad news, I read this piece on the aftermath of the now infamous UC Berkeley tree sitters and it made me smile, especially the part about UC (BTW, let’s not forget they are funded by CA taxpayers AND students) standing to have legal costs recovered from the very people who wasted two years doing it.

Berkeley’s infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.

Ironically, much of the money – which could total more than $10,000 per sitter – is going straight to the University of California, the very institution the tree-sitters were protesting as they tried to save a grove of trees outside Memorial Stadium.

[From UC hits tree-sitters with expensive surprise]