Congratulations: Your government spent $592,000 in your tax dollars to study why monkeys throw their feces

The following gems were complied by VOODOO WARRIOR from the Coburn 2011 Wastebook.

- $740,000 given to Montana State University tostudy how wild sheep can be used to control weeds.

- $132,000 granted to redesign a show website for PBS, Jonathan Bird's Blue World.

- $499,000 given to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Society for no reason anyone can identify.

- $80,000 to upgrade a street median in Washington DC.

- $339,000 awarded by the National Science Foundation to study weaving in Iceland.

- $5,180,000 to fund the construction of a Steamboat Overlook Interpretive Center in Louisiana.

- $923,000 awarded by the National Science Foudnation to study how robots can be used to help pre-schholers learn to read.

- $592,000 from the National Institute of Health to study why monkeys throw their sh*t.

There are more here if you can stand it.