The New Math

Conservative media commentator Bill O'Reilly showed his incredible grasp of mathematics recently when he responded to an e-mail from a Canadian resident who pointed out that we have a higher life expectancy here in the Great White North than those living under American health care do. O'Reilly's explanation?

"Well, that's to be expected, Peter, because we have ten times as many people as you do. That translates to ten times as many accidents, crimes, down the line."

I guess, in the O'Reilly version of how the universe (and mathematical principles) operate, the really smart people all know to live in tiny little countries, with no more than a few thousand people... Hell, you'd probably live to 200 in one of them!

And to think that millions of Americans actually listen to what this "genius" has to say every day!