CRAZY CASH
Last month, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake released a list of wasteful and distasteful government expenditures.
Among the revelations was a $1 million grant, part or all of which went to learning what music monkeys like. Another $1 million helped study why yawning is contagious. If you want to know whether cheerleaders are more attractive as a group, $1.1 million should help the cause. And a $3.9 million grant funded research on what makes goldfish feel sexy.
All of which pale in comparison to the Houston Rockets spending $87 million to find out whether Dwight Howard can play.