Most of the stuff on that list I don't see as "pork." Think about it:   crickets are a problem in Utah. Always have been. They play hell with crops. Have you ever been downwind of a pig farm? Not nice, especially if you happen to live there.

Instead of just dismissing it, put your brain in gear and go over that list again.

Among other things, Jindal got a big laugh out of "volcano monitoring." I guess he doesn't live in a state with three active volcanoes in it:    Mt. Baker, which was rumbling and emitting steam in the late 1970s and is still very much alive, Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980, killed about 30 people, and did an immense amount of property damage, and is still rumbling, and Mt. Rainier, which is venting steam, and if it erupts, could do a real Vesuvius/Pompeii number on populated areas such as Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, and a number of other communities in the area.

Hawaii has a problem that way too, and California and Oregon are not immune either.

I'm glad that somebody is minding the store.

Don Firth