Perspective

As I was driving home tonight I listened to the news. Whether it was WTOP or WAMU, I don't remember. The story they were about to report had to do with sex offenders in the region. Apparently there are 20,000 registered in the DC-VA-MD region. That's pretty high, don't you think?

I didn't pay attention to the rest of the story, however, because another figure popped into my head and my mind wandered: 30,000. Yes, I bet you know what that number is.

So there are only 10,000 more ALS patients in the whole country than there are sex offenders in this region.

Hmmmm.