YOUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

As the economy continues down its rocky road, as the quagmire in Iraq continues (yet continues to receive less & less press coverage), and as midterm elections approach, the money-devouring machine known as the United States Government stays the course, spending like a spoiled teenager holding Daddy's plastic.

What's it up to this time? Sending a dragnet to Michigan to search for the remains of union boss, Jimmy Hoffa, dead since 1975. Nope, not making this one up. Check the link. Please. It's real.

"This is the best lead I've seen come across in the Hoffa investigation," the chief agent from the Detroit FBI field office actually told reporters, fighting not to snicker and chortle. The investigation team, which includes, "dozens of agents, cadaver dogs, demolition experts and archaeologists and anthropologists," hopes to find . . . uhhh, what exactly are they trying to find? The body of a guy everyone knows is dead? Do they go next to France to "search" for Jim Morrison's remains?

Anthropologists!

Yes, ladies and gents, this is what our government does. When it's not sinking decommissioned ships, or sending troops to guard the Mexican border, it hires anthropologists to invade small farms, looking for famous corpses.

And, making everything all the more asburd, everyone already knows where Hoffa's buried. And unless the Giants & Jets move to Detroit, it ain't Michigan.