Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, September 20, 2004.

Again another week without much time to write. Luckily, this one is pretty self-explanatory. Unluckily, too. We've all become adept at interpreting radar imagery of hurricanes, and we all have a personal story to tell about shockingly high health care costs. (And we're all at least a little unnerved about just how much this Iraqi War is going to end up taxing us.)

So yeah, just another happy example of how an editorial cartoon can wrap disparate instances of human suffering into a tidy, bite-size package. Always glad to brighten your day!