Today I'm giving out not one, but two, Shallow Sex Twits Awards. It's the least I can do. There's a war on you know.
You’ll just have to read this one for yourself. Does the US government believe that if they send the money to China, the American people won’t notice that their tax dollars are being spent twitishly?
Lookie here, any government twit could have called me and said, “Ms V, what do you think about combining prostitution, alcohol and HIV?”
I’d have answered, “Well, I’ll tell ya, Sparky, ya got your prostitutes, ya got your alcohol, and ya got your HIV. Ya mix those things together and you’re gonna get what we Okies call your “negative nexus.”
The good news is that we don’t call pimps in China pimps. Nope, we call ‘em gatekeepers.
I’m guessing that’s another way to keep the American taxpayer from figuring out that her/his tax dollars are paying for a study of pimps, hos, hooch, and an STD. Don’t we have those in the U.S.? Does this study actually NEED to be outsourced to China?
$2.6 million story here.
The New York State Psychiatric Institute is only spending $403,902 of our tax dollars to find out if there’s a relationship in Argentina between homosexuals, bars, alcohol and risky sexual behavior.
Hey, it’s a bar, you’re gonna get likkered up and pick up strange. What does nationality and sexual orientation have to do with it?
My sincere apologies to any Argentinian homosexuals or Chinese prostitutes who were harmed in the making of this blog entry.


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Comments
I wonder if China is spending money studying our sex and drinking habits?
A nearly 1-litre bottle of Quilmes dark (I may be spelling that incorrectly) costs c. $4 on a fine patio in Buenos Aires. I think it the finest dark beer in the world ... much better than Guiness.
If I'm doing my math correctly, I could buy 100,000 bottles for that.
My dream NIH study would be a modest $100,000 grant to study the effects of sunlight and champagne on the vitamin-D levels of Brazilian supermodels at the clothing-optional beaches of Southern France. If not the NIH, I'm sure the NEA would graciously pick up the tab ...
When the going gets tough, the tough get scientific study grants. ;-)