The nation waits with baited breath to see if enough Americans enroll in the Healthcare Marketplace to make it a financially solvent program. With a rough rollout of the Marketplace website, many have failed to sign up on time. There have also been fewer numbers of younger, healthier people joining up than anticipated so far as well.
Meanwhile, halfway across the world at the funeral for South African revolutionary and statesman Nelson Mandela, a man more or less posing as an interpreter for the deaf offered meaningless gestures to the audience just feet away from dignitaries, including President Obama. It was later revealed that he was schizophrenic and had a criminal history - which would also make him fully qualified to run for Congress.