Wastebook

Senator Tom Coburn (R., Oklahoma) has released his final ‘Wastebook’ because he is retiring after this term. This years report is almost two hundred pages long and chronicles $25 billion in silly, unnecessary or low priority projects.

The National Science Foundation spent $331,000 on a study that found that spouses stab voodoo dolls more when they are hungry and angry. Well, that explains a lot - to someone.

Grants to the National Endowment for the Arts included $10,000 to produce a play about two lesbians who think they are Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt. I’m going to wait for the sitcom to come out before I watch this.

As a shooter who is shocked about the cost of ammunition, my attention was drawn to the Pentagon spending $1 billion to destroy $16 billion worth of ammunition. Why didn’t they just give it to Walmart? It would have sold out in a weekend.

Oh, the National Science Foundation also taught monkeys to play video games and gamble. That has got to further science more than the discovery of fire.

Not to be out done, the Department of the Interior actually paid people to watch grass to see how quickly it grows.

I wonder where one would submit an application for that job?

PMO
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