I’m getting the impression — and by all means, correct me if I’m wrong — that people don’t really like Bernie Madoff:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn fraud that wrecked the lives of thousands of investors.

The US district judge Denny Chin described the fraud as “staggering” and said the “breach of trust was massive” in the fraud and that a message was being sent by the sentence. There had been no letters submitted in support of Madoff’s character, he said. Victims in the courtroom clapped as the term was read out.

At 71, Madoff will prrrrrobably be living out the rest of his life in prison, provided he doesn’t either discover the alien pool from Cocoon, make a wish to be turned “Small” at a mysterious carnival wishing booth, or swap lives with Zac Efron a la Seventeen Again then naturally live to age 168.

Either way, it’s nice to finally get some good news — thanks go out to the judge for this intentionally humorous sentence, though if he’d gone the extra mile and just done “A Million Billion Years,” I don’t think anyone would’ve really complained.