Professor Elam

I admit to be fascinated by as Jimmy Buffet says, the Bamboo Steamer. He wrote that song as tribute to all the cable tv junk that gets sold on the weekends. Surely we could think of the next great  Billy Mays or Ron Popeii

cut the wine bottle to make a glass

pasta maker

or my personal favorite, spray on hair

Anyway here it is the latest sure to be a hit order by internet gadget. Someone creatd the  sixteen digit calculator now that we have debt in the trillions. When ordinary just won't do I guess.

Needless to say the official color is red. The fact that our debt is now the subject of such derision suggests that the editorial in today's San Antonio paper supporting a bi partisan commission to bring deficits under control is long overdue.