Well said

August J. Pollak of Some Guy With a Website apparently had the same sort of reaction I've had to certain pieces of news recently, but he had a sharp way of making the point:

Rated to a monthly average, the following countries have a Gross Domestic Product of less than $55 million:

Liberia, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Comoros, Vanuatu, Samoa, East Timor, Gambia, The Solomon Islands, Guinea, Kiribati, and Tonga.

The amounts of money raised every month, month after month, for political campaigns is just obscene. And the only news coverage is about who raised how much more than who and is that more or less than last month and all rest of this variation of the horserace crap and not one of them seems to ever say "S/he raised $50 million in one month? Holy fucking crap, this system is just bananas."