Been a while since I’ve done an afternoon quickie, but I wanted to draw a tiny bit more attention to this post over on Heresy Corner:

Three trillion. I don’t know what that is. Technically, of course, I know what it is: it’s three followed by twelve zeroes. I just don’t know what it looks like. If for every pound this government has wasted you scooped out a teaspoonful of earth, the resulting hole (by my very approximate calculation) would be about 15 million cubic metres. That’s big enough to swallow the Great Pyramid six times. Thanks a lot, Gordon.

The full post is here and sums up perfectly the state of helpless panic we seem to inevitably feel when we start looking at the actual numbers.