I kept listening to these "earmarks" in the last debate, and going "Bear genetics! Volcano gasses! AWESOME!". If they were like, we want fifty bazillion dollars for a DEATH RAY, I would be upset - oh wait, I am upset - but if someone wants to spend .0001 % of the federal budget so that some schoolkids in Chicago can see space, I am so on board I'm practically the captain.
(and apparently it wasn't actually an earmark! The Adler Planetarium people have written a letter (http://adlerplanetarium.org/pressroom/pr/2008_10_08_AdlerStatement_aboutdebate.pdf) and they are just plain not going to stand for this!)
(ooh, ooh, and the bear hair study results (http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/09/17/news/news01.txt) say we aren't about to lose bears as a species! Which I personally enjoy knowing!)
Actually, with y'all's insider knowledge: is that a lot to pay for a planetarium projector, anyway? Apparently it's the cost of 2 new IMAX theaters.
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(and apparently it wasn't actually an earmark! The Adler Planetarium people have written a letter (http://adlerplanetarium.org/pressroom/pr/2008_10_08_AdlerStatement_aboutdebate.pdf) and they are just plain not going to stand for this!)
(ooh, ooh, and the bear hair study results (http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/09/17/news/news01.txt) say we aren't about to lose bears as a species! Which I personally enjoy knowing!)
Actually, with y'all's insider knowledge: is that a lot to pay for a planetarium projector, anyway? Apparently it's the cost of 2 new IMAX theaters.