Chelsea Clinton’s wedding is going to cost $5 million. There must be a point to such lavishness in the world, but I struggle to understand it at this moment and it makes me sad. I wonder what that amount of money would do to improve the lives of the 1.2 million people living in unspeakable conditions in the slum of Kibera – maybe get some plumbing in there so they don’t have to walk through their own sewage every day? Probably it is more about politics than funding. I don’t understand the world. I want to, but I don’t.

I like the stories of Robin Hood as an awakener of ideals of social justice. Maybe this character is reviving in the collective psyche when such inequities come out as the story on the news today about the mayor of Bell, California, who has been paying himself twice what the President of the United States makes while raising taxes and seeing jobs lost. Finally, he’s busted.  Robin Hood is a mythic figure that I’d like to see more such activity from. Long live Robin Hood.