hindsight, or why living in a bubble never lasts

One year at TJ is over - and what did I learn?

1. Java sucks
2. "Math" at TJ is no less pointless than "math" anywhere else
3. The APCS exam is worse than a joke
4. Friends by necessity are neither friends nor necessary
5. No matter how selective your admissions process is, idiots still creep in
6. It is possible to get an A in every class without really trying in any of them
7. Doing a group project with slackers means you have more control
8. But doing a group project with overachievers actually means more work
9. I was more paranoid about Obama than I should have been, but the worst is likely yet to come
   
10. I can't write anything without getting political
11. I can't write anything without going meta
12. Java sucks

I'll leave you with something completely different:

def bad():
    c='bnzedy gnrwx zqxv ughxm'
    print ''.join([e.translate(''.join([chr(n) for n in range(97)]+[chr((n-(d-c[:d].rfind(' ')-int(' ' in c))-72)%26+97) for n in range(97,124)]+[chr(n) for n in range(124,256)])) for d,e in enumerate(c)])

def good():
    ctext='bnzedy gnrwx zqxv ughxm'
    output = ''
    for i in range(len(ctext)):
        table = ''
        for n in range(97):
            table += chr(n)
        for n in range(97, 124):
            table += chr((n-(i-ctext[:i].rfind(' ')-int(' ' in ctext))-72)%26+97)
        for n in range(124, 256):
            table += chr(n)
        output += ctext[i].translate(table)
    print output

These do the same thing, and compile to almost the same bytecode...which do you prefer? Elegance or readability?