Make no mistake

From today's New York Times in an article by Roslyn Sulcas reviewing a production by choreographer and artistic director John Jasperse:

It will come as no shock to many in the audience that some of the best dancers in one of the world’s cultural capitals earn less money in a year than unskilled workers. But some of the other numbers Mr. Jasperse cites may be more surprising: his own annual salary ($26,000) as artistic director of the John Jasperse Company; Judge Judy’s annual earnings ($26 million more than the combined annual salaries of all nine United States Supreme Court justices); and the daily cost of the war in Iraq, $720 million, versus the $160 million projected annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. (Read that again and marvel: The words daily and annual are not mistakes.)

(Emphasis added, not that it really needed it.)