George sent me this story, because George knows me!
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the recovery.gov website.
The grant description says,“The project examines how reproductive morphology covaries with season, age, and social environment in a diverse sample of duck species that differ in ecology, territoriality and breeding system.”
The grant was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package.
Sequestration is serious business. Jobs are on the line. Day care for poor kids is under the ax.
Yet even in this budget climate, your federal government still has the money to pay for — please disregard our blushing — a study examining duck penises.
You read that right: duck penises.
This waterfowl kerfuffle erupted last week, when the conservative website CNSNews.com published a story pulling back the curtain on a $384,949 grant from the National Science Foundation for a Yale University study looking at ducks’ sexual behavior and anatomy and the evolutionary consequences.
So glad we’re so broke we still have money to burn!
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/25/ducks-meet-the-culture-wars/
Daycare for poor kids is only on the docket so they can justify raising taxes.
If they cut the waste and dross people would notice that we didn’t need it in the first place. And we notice that; we may start wondering what else we don’t need the government for.
But if the president cuts back this month’s second vacation by half a day that would more than pay for it. Think he will? Me neither…