Hot New Boondoggle

half a trillion dollars for what, exactly?

When I was a young lad in the southern wilds of Louisiana, I would love to grab a random volume of our World Book, flop on the sofa, and just thumb through it. I was a curious kid, and one of the entries I enjoyed was in the "C" volume - - Computers - - which at the time discussed these electronic machines that only governments and large businesses coul…