Would YOU invest $700,000 in a joke machine?

  Hey, how about a whoopee cushion? Or maybe some Chinese cookies? Or maybe horoscopes? Yeah, that's it. Horoscopes. That's worth, oh, wow, a million bucks. Of stimulus money, that is. Not my 401k.
  Read at ABC:

"Understanding what makes humor, what makes irony, what makes interesting juxtapositions, to understand what that means we can actually create it. We can create new material," said Hammond.

It's all heady, academic stuff, but Hammond is trying to give computers intuition.

  Oh, so the point of this article over at ABC is that some pointy headed professor got $700,000 to create...joke software. What is remarkable is that the pointy head is justifying spending stimulus money on it, like it's a great project.That's how disengaged from current circumstances, the economy and the public academics are. 
  Huh. 
  I think we've heard about enough of that BS.
  You wanna know why the tea parties started?
  This is it.