Sometimes the good really do get rewarded. Dr. Regina Benjamin, a local Catholic physician who has devoted her career to providing health care to poor people, is the new Surgeon General. Bravo!

UPDATE: There’s a good picture, and a bit more info, here. She is as unpretentious as she looks in this picture—my wife had a twenty-minute conversation with her the other day in the middle of Sam’s. (They have some mutual acquaintances. Meanwhile, I was amusing myself with the computers and flat-screen TVs.)