If an event is 'happy' then it is probably not news. News is a deviation from the norm, and the debate on what constitutes the norm is the frequent cause of bias. Its real purpose is to give people information they can use to adjust their own actions so as to maximize their livelihood. [...]
The problem is the focus on the wrong kind of doom and gloom, not too much of it. If you want 'light' or inconsequential news, then what you're asking for is not news, but entertainment.

[...] politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Life would be much easier, if I had the source code. -- Unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. (Mark Twain)

Now that my socks are all dark, I don't have to sort them anymore. :)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

On Slashdot it would only start out as "Evolution vs. Creation."
Within three posts, it would become "Evolution vs. intelligent design."
It still wouldn't really heat up to a full flamefest until it became "Evolution vs. Kmail."

Missing Option: The ORIGINAL FlameWar
Banging Rocks vs. Rubbing Sticks Together