When my grandmother needed teeth for the first time, she really didn’t have the cash. But she had a skill, bookkeeping, so she traded a set for a years worth of service. Dentist went for it. I am afraid today way too many people just aren’t traders and would rather just sit on the dole.

The “Sister had to wear the dead woman’s teeth” will never be topped. Even when one realizes that dental work is not covered now nor ever, the comment in itself is amazingly stupid.

A whale, on the other hand is a mammal adapted to surviving over thousands of miles of seaway, many hundreds of feet deep. At sea world, they are contained in a tank with a few thousand gallons of sea water. Solitary confinement, as opposed to traveling and hunting in a pack. Eating mackeral, one at a time, as opposed to seals.

Yesterday was a tragedy, but when you think about it, a woman in a black diving suit probably looks like a seal.