On This Date Two Years Ago

the United States invaded Iraq. Today, the United States is invading a Florida hospital room.

I really wonder--someone, somewhere has probably already done this math--how much money the family, their supporters, the Florida state government, and now the Congress have spent to keep alive a woman who, for lack of a better word, has a cerebral cortex made of goo. Think about Florida's 700,000 children in poverty, and how much those dedicated folks could have done to help them.

But, you know, those black and brown kids don't make good television, I suppose.