Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act in the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case. Last night I read everything I could get my iPad’s hands on via the Web site of the world’s best source for news, the New York Times.
But that wasn’t enough. I went to bed last night knowing that there was going to be a six-column headline this morning. I love six-column headlines. Here it is:
Justices, By 5 – 4, Uphold Health Care Law;
Roberts in Majority; Victory for Obama
That doesn’t appear anywhere in an online search at this time except in a summary of news coverage on Politico. It is a uniquely physical object— a double-decker set of text delivered to millions of homes and stacked nears thousands of sticks of gum on streets and in stores all over the world. A comma- and semicolon-separated statement of facts that define, forever, what happened yesterday.
When I went out to walk the dog this morning, the paper wasn’t quite here yet. While I was out, I saw the delivery person walking by with her stacks. I chased her down and gave her all of the money in my pocket (eight dollars). Because she delivers me something worth paying for, every morning.
We really do live in a wonderful country.