There is a story on ABC.com right now about how the Pentagon spends a good deal of money on research, some of it very wacky research at that. Gay bomb & psychic teleportation wacky.

Now granted the idea of creating a ‘gay bomb’ sounds pretty crazy. Well it is pretty crazy too. With that said, this is science. Not long ago funding billion dollar research to split a microscopic atom in order to blow up cities probably sounded pretty darn wacky too. I am not going to lie, a good chunk of this research will end up never leading to anything substantive. Because of that plenty of politicians and political watchers will use it in a stump speech to talk about the waste of government. The reality is you never know where good science will come from. Did anyone think mold could be used to cure disease? Probably not.

With that said THE LAST group of people who should be talking about funding stupid things is the media. At the same time this story is running another story is out purporting that NBC is paying Paris Hilton $1 million for her first post-jail interview. I guarantee the country and the media would get more out of that $1 million searching for psychic teleportation then they will spending it on Paris Hilton. Which is to say, what can you get for less then nothing?