Be kind to your potential lunch . . .

I know that a lot of our tax dollars are wasted but this article from the Washington Times was funny yet very sad. It is more than just a lot of our tax dollars going down the drain! Here is the link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/tax-dollars-shrimp-treadmills-jell-o-wrestling/

In case the link doesn't come through for some reason, this has to be my favorite excerpt from the article:

In another instance, the agency paid $559,681 to test sick shrimps’ metabolism, which one researcher said was “the first time that shrimp have been exercised on a treadmill.”
Mr. Coburn’s report noted that the researchers found sick shrimp “did not perform as well and did not recover as well from exercise as healthy shrimp.”

Seems we all should get in line for some research money . . . no experience required!