NPR is gleefully reporting that $75,000,000 has been slipped into the CoVid-19 response legislation to fund the Public Art Crowd (NEA, NEH,JFK Arts Center). Cost of a ventilator: $35,257. That's 2,190 ventilators we might have purchased. This is good public policy because while we're all quarantined, or worse, at least we'll be assured of a renewed stream of Liberal Glitterati giving each other medals, and Terry Gross interviewing Robert Deniro about how awful Trump is. Maybe a supplemental appropriation to bring back Tavis Smiley would cheer us all up even more.