hot & complicated {like rabies, only better}

I have to admit, I’ve been frequenting CNN.com far too often the last few weeks in an attempt to keep up with all of the latest developments in the presidential race and the financial crisis. I’m talking every 5 minutes. I’m beginning to understand and embody the term news junkie. Come on, I just need a taste, some new poll numbers, DOW Jones updates, A scathing Palin critique, something!
So this morning I made my first visit and was struck by an image and story that I thought was funny, yet seriously frightening. Just take a look at this image:

It’s one thing to hear that our national debt is 10 trillion dollars, but to see it represented on the US National Debt clock puts it in perspective. That’s a lot of digits. So what I thought was funny was that they ran out of space on the Debt Clock and had to remove the dollar sign in order to make the jump to double-digit trillion figure. Better yet, they’re planning to add two more spaces to accommodate a debt figure in the QUADRILLIONS.
I just have to laugh.