Would you like some bailout with a side of swine flu?

Is it me or has NPR talked about nothing but these two issues - no one has any money (still) and everyone has the flu.

It has kept me in bed all week ... Who wants to get up when you know "Morning Edition" has nothing good to talk about.

This 24-hour news cycle is making me wheeze. I am travelling to California soon and my first thought is to wear a haz-mat suit on the plane. But then --it occurred to me -- people have the flu all the time. Relax. People get sick all the time. People are sick all the time.

Anyway, hope to wake up tomorrow to hear about a good natural disaster in Korea -- like an earthquake in the mountains or something.

That should help me get out of bed with a spring in my step!