Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

Sometimes a single statistic reveals more about human values than a thousand comment-laden blogs. I scribbled down one such jarring fact while reading Jonathan Alter’s often-insightful column: We essentially spend more money every six months in Iraq than we’ve spent in the past 30 years on cancer research.

This post was added on Monday, June 09, 2008 by Tom Swift at 11:32 and is filed under Reading Material.