RoboSquirrel and Martian Pizza

Those are only two of the egregiously loopy projects (my two favorites, actually) on which the Obama government squandered billions of taxpayers' shekels this year.

FYI, $325,000 went to scientists who were studying how snakes would react to a robot squirrel. (The question of why not a RoboSnake to see how squirrels would respond to serpents remains unanswered.) And I don't really see the point of coming up with possible pizza recipes for an American landing on Mars when manned space travel has been written out of NASA's agenda for the foreseeable future.