Puppet Show And Spinal Tap

Embedded below is a 2 minute segment from the CBS Evening News last night on some 100 crazy and wasteful projects that have been approved for $7 billion in funding as part of the President's $787 billion stimulus package. They apparently include: $75,000 for puppet shows and clown theater, $389,000 for people to keep journals of their malt liquor and marijuana use, and $9 million for a footbridge over Route 1 in Foxboro, Massachusetts that the Governor there claimed would create 8,000 jobs ("astonishing," says CBS).