We briefly digress to deal with financial disasters of lesser import: projects such as Everglades Restoration that only cost taxpayers a few billion dollars, rather than several hundred billion.

Evidently, after eight years, not a single project is finished. Who cares, right? Maybe you've taken Alligator Alley to Naples. Not much to see. Kinda ugly, really. Some scrubby trees. A bird.

If you think the value of your house is in the tank now, wait until our drinking water starts to run out because the 'Glades got so polluted that it can't filter what goes into the aquifer.

Perrier, anyone?