I know no one cares about the national debt — that’s yesterday’s news, and the new normal — but it’s now over $18 trillion.

And I was thinking: Since Barack Obama uses the White House the way college students use their quad, maybe he could bathe the White House in red, to symbolize the debt?

P.S. Cuban democracy activists around the world have projected the pictures of political prisoners onto certain buildings — such as Cuban embassies. Maybe they could do this at the White House one night?

P.P.S. Independence Day is coming. Maybe O could splash the White House in red, white, and blue — he’d only have to add two colors — or is that too unsexy? Too square?

If you want to play around with the White House, light-wise, there are plenty of ideas. But should this national symbol, this national house, really be used like the campus quad?