Feb. 17th, 2005 09:07 am
Well DUH! Calendar
Government by the Idiots
In 1977, the Smithsonian Institution bankrolled development of a dictionary of Tzotzil, a language spoken by only 120,000 poor farmers in southern Mexico, nearly none of whom could read or write--and, therefore, didn't have much use for a dictionary. If the government had simply given the farmers the $89,000 it spent on the dictionary they didn't need, they wouldn't have been so poor.
NOTE: This rings a bell from last year's calendar, but I could be mistaken.